I wanted to do this for quite some time: a place that logs tracks I listen to.
Introducing TWPlaylist! Thanks to Twitter and a Winamp Plugin, all tracks that I listen to (at work) are stored on a dummy account (if you know a plugin that does the same for iTunes, please let me know). And to keep things nice and smooth, I set up a quick page that pulls this data and displays it thanks to some AJAX magic… Tracks link to a Discogs search page to find more about them.
As you can read the project page’s bottom, everything I wrote is opensource. HTML, CSS and JS ; help yourself. Nothing too fancy, but it could prevent you from wasting time… By the way, the code should be self-explanatory, but if it’s not I can help.
You will probably notice the some tracks’ data look weird, in fact the Winamp plugin chokes on special characters such as “&” and accented letters… I hope this gets fixed one day.
I’ve never been a big fan of Twitter as I think most user don’t use it the way it should be used, for example by having private discussions or retweeting too much. However it’s a pretty interesting platform for experimentation and art projects. What do you think?
[Sept. 2011 Update] I “donated” the twplaylist Twitter account to a charity campaign, so I moved the account archives to twplaylist_bckp.