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November 10, 2004

Pending ICYG Features

  • RSS 2.0 and Atom XML feeds with hourly digests of what music was played
  • Context-sensitive bumpers ("You're listening to Porcupine Tree on ICYG...")
  • Non-musical content: short podcast-type clips, both original and from others on the Web

I've started submitting Indiefeed music that I like in an effort to get more non-RIAA content in the stream. I may try to flag indies with a visual indicator so that they stand out.

Update: I think the RSS feed is working well now. Digging into the Atom feed specs, I don't know that Atom is meant for this type of "stateless" data. The mandatory requirement of the tag for each element (and mandatory uniqueness within the feed) doesn't map to ICYG since the feed is an interactive scrape of the play logs, which are not online documents. Hence, I have nothing unique to link them to.

Posted by Alex Harden on November 10, 2004 5:57 PM |

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I know I submitted a bit of Indie music. I know I have a lot more laying around here that I could get up to ICYG too. It has been a while since I burnt some. Doing this NaNoWriMo thing this month has taken a lot of my free time. I am looking forward to some of those features, and I will more than likely use an xml feed if you make it available.

Also wanted to say I like the cookie feature of typepad. I was unaware this was broken in the template and I stopped signing in when you did not require it. Simply because I had to sign in everytime I visited the site. Cookies when used right are keen. ;)

Posted by: Scotbuff | November 10, 2004 6:26 PM

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