BBC Audio & Music Interactive at Mashed 2008

This is a temporary site for apps, data and feeds from BBC Audio & Music Interactive for Mashed 2008.

All apps, data and feeds are provided as is and with no support.

Slides for 2008-06-21 presentation are here: audioandmusic_mashed08.pdf.

New for this year:

Also, from last year:

 

Live XMPP Now Playing Feed

Live now playing data for Radios 1, 2, 1Xtra and 6Music featuring track information, MusicBrainz artist IDs and programme identifiers for /programmes.

Point your XMPP pubsub client at pubsub.hug.hellomatty.com you'll find a node for each of our national stations: /home/hug.hellomatty.com/radio1/nowplaying, /home/hug.hellomatty.com/radio2/nowplaying etc...

Read more about this on the BBC Radio Labs blog:

Recording of Transmission Archive

We have brought the last month of BBC Radio with us to Mashed!
This is only accessible from mashed for the duration of the event, by joining our wireless network:

Live HTTP MPEG Audio Streams

For the duration of Mashed, we are making live MPEG Audio streams of BBC Radio over HTTP.

For a list of of available streams, visit:

How many times brands have played artists

We've been matching the tracks played on-air

This let's us produce a term space of which artists played on each brand, and the number of times that they were played by that brand. Use this for powering recommendation engine (e.g. recommend programmes brands from a last.fm account), or building some visualisations.

The dataset is available here. (Based on playout data for Radio1, 1Xtra, Radio2 and 6Music from September 2007 until mid-June 2008)

NEW: We've done the same for episodes/artist data.

Genres for set of MusicBrainz Artists

We have built a list of genres for MusicBrainz artists, based on editorial data entered for bbc.co.uk/music.
You can download the dataset here:

RDF views for bbc.co.uk/programmes

We also have a version of bbc.co.uk/programmes with RDF views of Brands, Episodes, Series and Episodes: