Listening to the DJs
Do any DJs use iTunes, last.fm or similar services to listen to music, outside their broadcast shows? Some of them must do. Or is everything they listen to unreleased white label 12"s? Anyway, wouldn't it be a great service if you could "tune" into what they are listening to right now? I suppose it would be extending their show outside its current temporal boundaries. It could be timeshifted as well, doesn't have to be live.
I was thinking about this as I've been listening to songs through iTunes and last.fm all day and somebody else should be able to tune into what I've listened to. OK, so no-one is very likely to want to do such a thing for my listening (well, unless you're a fan of classic 60s Impulse, new UK jazz, instrumental hip-hop and Gilles Peterson, in which case I've got excellent taste), but they might for a DJ or a record producer.
Does anything do this already? I know last.fm is close - it shows you what people are playing, and plays a stream of random music from other their profiles. But it doesn't do a stream of what they've just listened to, rights problems I guess.
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just stumbled across the site as you were the top 'neighbour' @ last.fm
great taste.
anyway, i know a a fair few djs who use lastfm. couldn't do a "live stream" of their listening, but might be an interesting project to aggregate the "embeded player" code from their lastfm front pages...
thanks :)
When is there going to be one of those music filled Peterson podcasts then? I'm too old for staying up that late these days.
(Yes I know I could listen again, but work might have me exterminated...)
Absolutely. That's top of my list for a music podcast as well. Unfortunately I have little influence in that particular product.
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