Now Playing Flex Pod

Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:00 -0000

I had to do something "fun and simple" with Flex besides the current project I'm working on. So after downloading the "Now Playing" plugin for iTunes from Brandon Fuller, I wanted to create a now playing Flex pod for BlogCFC. Instead of using the xml directly, I use Flash Remoting instead so I can do stuff with the data later on (look at the points listed below).

The little app is far from finished. A few points I like to add/modify in the future:

Running text if the text is too long for the label
Update the data every x minutes/seconds or add some LCDS/BlazeDS magic to it.
History management (save all played songs in a db for history)
Buy now links (search for the song on multiple online stores and show their buy now links)
Star rating (let people rate a song in conjunction with the history db)
Link to the artist website or other sites like Last.fm

The pod is on the bottom of all the pods on the left. Let me know what you think and if anyone might want it released for their own use.

Michael van Leest - Music

Now Playing Flex Pod