Prototype: BBC What's On Now
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| 16:49 UK time, Monday, 1 February 2010
The BBC What's On Now project was an idea of Tim Coysh. He's a regular Radio 1 listener and found it frustrating when he would miss the name of the tunes playing.
Its not only Radio 1 either, its also Radio 2, 1Xtra and Radio 6 music. We look forward to seeing what other data source Tim can pull into the mix. Nice work Tim
Radio 1 is the place where all the new songs are played, and it is very important to know the song title if you want to go on to buy the song.
I decided to go to a website which told you the song name - and was astonished when I could not find any sites which did such a thing. Being a novice website programmer, I decided to look into designing a website which would tell you What's On Radio One. You can see more about how it works on the 'How Does It Work' page.
After designing a prototype site, I found that the site was very dull and boring, it just gave you the song name and artist. I decided to look into more options, like putting a webcam in and retrieving the lyrics for the song. I decided to do this, plus adding the option of changing the radio station - because not everyone prefers Radio 1 - and eventually I created the site you are seeing in front of you.
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Thanks for the pointer Ian, very useful - I've blogged it at http://www.consumingexperience.com/2010/02/what-that-song-on-radio.html
What I'd be interested to know though is, what's the copyright licensing position? What did the BackStage legal bods think? Personally I'd take out the lyrics and album art displays, maybe even the bios, just to be safe - but that's me!
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