Tuesday, January 31, 2006
iTunes gizmo and now playing on my website
After much work I finally found and got a "now playing" image on my website for iTunes. This little tool posts the current song and relevant info to a small xml file on your computer and can ftp it to your server as well. Then the problem became how to get it on my website. I wasn't real familiar with php scripting, so I searched more and some more and some more and finally found a flash app to use. It took a while to get it configured right, but it basically takes the info from the xml file and grabs the album art from either amazon.com or iTunes and puts it on your website. It seems to be working well, except I'm not sure it's updating like it should. I have it set to update the song info every two minutes within the flash settings, but I have yet to see it update. It does update on page refresh though, so maybe that's a solution. I could just set the page to refresh every two minutes on it's own. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Update: The flash app is updating like it is supposed to. Woohoo!
Update: The flash app is updating like it is supposed to. Woohoo!
