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Re: RSS for webcasts
There is a way to provide information on the track, artist, and album you're listening to on over-air radio. It's called RDS, for Radio Data System. It's never really caught on here in the US, but it's used some in Europe. I was a judge in the Radio category for this year's Webby Awards, so I've been visiting a lot of radio sites lately, and one thing I noted on a number of the sites I looked at was that some stations are including an applet or something on their sites that shows the current track. Some of them are even showing the previous track and the next track. A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Winter SWL Fest outside Philadelphia, where a good friend of mine showed me the Sirius satellite radio he'd had installed in his car. One of the features was that you could cycle the display through a number of parameters, including the song name, artist, and album for the current track. Clearly, it's not that difficult to pull this information together. Whether RSS is the proper format or a purpose-built XML format would work better for what you're aiming for I don't know, but it's clearly doable.
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