New Album Notification

[Dominik Karall]

On Sunday, 2. July 2006 16:02, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> Le Dimanche 2 Juillet 2006 15:41, vous avez écrit :
> > This would be so infeasible currently.  No sites offer a rss feed
> > of their releases, and every band site is setup differently,
> > someone would have to go to every band in the world's site and
> > write a custom parser just for that site.  There is no way its
> > possible.
>
> Hum, yes that's true.
>
> But there are online music magazines.
> They already aggregate new albums for you, they could be a starting
> point. Perhapse it would requiere to visit one site per music
> genre, but much better than one site per group.
>
> Perhapse there is already existing sites that do such
> notifications.
>
> Or better, sites that lists whole discographies (and paroles) of a
> lot of artists.
> It would means parsing HTML to know the whole discography of an
> artist and then comparing to the discs the user already have.
> But this is doable.
>
> At worst, a new file format should be created and ask every sites
> to adopt it. A few years ago, while RSS wasn't existing, people
> would replyed "there is no other way to know if a website has news
> than visiting every sites one per one". Instead, the good way was
> to invent RSS and ask every websites supports it.
> But I agree this one will be difficult without major other music
> players adopting it. Major as in "Windows Media Player" and
> "iTunes"... But at least for iTunes they already have "iTunes Music
> Store" so they do not need such fileformat.

Your idea sounds really interesting, but I don't think that it will 
work, because for me it would need to query about 3000 artists for 
new albums.

But if it could be implemented, I think amazon webservices would be a 
good starting point to query for new albums, if they provide such 
information!? So if amazon does, maybe a smart algo could retrieve 
the information (only for played songs, or only for songs which were 
played in the last few days,...).

cheers,
dominik