Comments on: What was that song? Comments on MetaFilter post What was that song? Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:48:33 -0800 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:48:33 -0800 en-us 60 What was that song? <a href="">What's playing?</a> What songs are playing on the radio right now and where, an interactive map. Less fun, but much more useful is the site's ability to look up a station and tell you what songs they recently played. <small>(via <a href="">J-Walk</a>)</small>,2006:site.53462 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:42:56 -0800 caddis radio music By: geoff. Oh wow. That is cool.,2006:site.53462-1387732 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:48:33 -0800 geoff. By: ericb This is a great resource. Thanks for pointing it out!,2006:site.53462-1387747 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:55:43 -0800 ericb By: stbalbach Wow. God radio. All knowing, all seeing.,2006:site.53462-1387754 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:00:53 -0800 stbalbach By: madamjujujive Neat new toy - thanks, caddis!,2006:site.53462-1387760 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:08:36 -0800 madamjujujive By: Faint of Butt Holy cats, that's awesome. Who runs this thing? Where does the data come from? Why doesn't every single radio station website in the US have this functionality?,2006:site.53462-1387774 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:15:44 -0800 Faint of Butt By: ed Finally, a web app that demonstrates that radio plays the same ten songs over and over and over again. Thank you, Web 2.0!,2006:site.53462-1387777 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:16:34 -0800 ed By: internal That's kinda cool. I wonder how much they had to pay for that domain name.,2006:site.53462-1387856 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:59:23 -0800 internal By: ibmcginty This is rockin'. Thanks.,2006:site.53462-1387923 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:40:14 -0800 ibmcginty By: echo0720 Sniff sniff, I can't get through my company's webfilter to see.,2006:site.53462-1387946 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:53:40 -0800 echo0720 By: cavalier Yeah, color me "How they doin that?" Are they just scraping websites? Most stations that I could pick out have websites which, if you visit, tell you what they're playing. YES.COM was registered in Switzerland... 10 years ago? I wish registries could track prior owners. :p,2006:site.53462-1388069 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:08:09 -0800 cavalier By: cavalier Woops. I don't know how to read. The data comes from a company called 'MediaGuide' <a href="">site here</a>. I still have no idea what their sauce is.,2006:site.53462-1388073 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:10:33 -0800 cavalier By: ericb <a href="">Yes</a>.,2006:site.53462-1388142 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:00:31 -0800 ericb By: TheDonF Pretty cool (saw someone playing a Twilight Singers track), but apart from being interesting to look at for a couple of minutes, what's the point? Is it of any practical use?,2006:site.53462-1388298 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:53:41 -0800 TheDonF By: caddis I really like the playlist feature. I heard a song coming home from work which the DJ never announced, and when I got home there it was. I can't tell you how many times before I would have loved to have been able to do this. I am an old school guy who still gets a lot of new music off of the radio, but it is tough when they don't announce the song or artist.,2006:site.53462-1388731 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:51:00 -0800 caddis By: friendly1 Wow that is amazing, I am not in the radio industry but I think the information collected might have some practical uses. Very cool caddis.,2006:site.53462-1389287 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:33:24 -0800 friendly1 By: intermod Holy sh!t. I don't think it's scraping websites, because the playlist data they have for my local gonzo weird radio station (<a href="">WREK</a>) is only a subset of what is published automatically on their website. So my theory is their running some sort of audio recognition algorithm, which is one of those technologies that's been fantasized about for years but never ever ever works. Except this time it seems to be pulling out some amazingly obscure stuff (as WREK is likely to play). Alternative theory: they are indeed scraping websites, but only listing the songs that exist in iTunes.,2006:site.53462-1390985 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:00:39 -0800 intermod By: intermod Yep, the only stuff they're listing is the more popular stuff. Compare <a href="">their listing of WREK's playlist</a> to <a href="">WREK's own live playlist</a>. Aw Jesus, now I don't know again. Their <a href="">top 100 for WREK</a> has Charlie Parker's Ornithology right at the top of the list. I know for a fact that WREK uses that song in a little 30 second promo ("you're listening to WREK Atlanta") as backing music, and that plays a lot more often than any song. There's a famous run of 32nd notes in it that easily identifies the song. And those promos are NOT listed on the website playlist. Jeez, are they in fact doing song recognition?,2006:site.53462-1390995 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:10:44 -0800 intermod By: ZachsMind KERA 90.1 FM doesn't show up on their list for my area. Probably cuz it doesn't play anything they can sell through itunes. Same holds true for most AM stations. Eh. I'd rather there be a decent site that trudges through the crap and tells me which podcasts would best suit my personal interests and tastes. Anyone know if there's an online radio station that caters to fans of Anarchy Online?,2006:site.53462-1390999 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:12:01 -0800 ZachsMind