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What’s playing?

Posted In: Technology — November 13, 2005 @ 10:37 am — Peter

While watching the AVs game last night I decided to hack our website some more and add another fun feature. Lately, we have been listening to music via our server in the front room that is hooked up to our stereo. I found a client/server based system called mpd that allows for console and web-based control. I’ve been smitten with the setup over the past few months since it taps into our 50GB mp3 collection which is stored on the same server.

I thought it would be fun if the current song playing would be displayed somewhere on our website. It was difficult slicing out a new piece of real estate to dedicate to this, so I figured I’d reuse the area we have dedicated to quotes. So, whenever the mpd server is actively playing a track, the name of the artist/album/track will be displayed instead of a quote. Here is what it looks like incase we’re not listening to any music at the moment, doot.

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