From fork-admin@xent.com Wed Sep 25 10:24:53 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C25616F03 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:24:53 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:24:53 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8P8L3C18779 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:21:03 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3A22940E5; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org Received: from alumnus.caltech.edu (alumnus.caltech.edu [131.215.49.51]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B170529409A for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alumnus.caltech.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8P8K2SV027166 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:20:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Digital radio playlists are prohibited?! From: Rohit Khare To: Fork@xent.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <95745878-D05F-11D6-8F1E-000393A46DEA@alumni.caltech.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@spamassassin.taint.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:19:59 -0700 Anyone heard of this law before? > Q. Can I get a playlist? > A. We are unable to offer a playlist. The Digital Performance Right in > Sound Recordings Act of 1995 passed by Congress prevents us from > disclosing such information. The Digital Law states that if one is > transmitting a digital signal, song information cannot be > pre-announced. It is a Music Choice policy not to release a playlist of > upcoming or previously played songs. Recently, MusicChoice upgraded their website with a very important service, as far as I'm concerned: real-time song info from their website. My DirecTV receiver is up on a shelf (and its display scrolls intermittently); and I'm surely not going to fire up my projector while listening to the "radio", so I'm quite happy that I can retrieve r/t song info with URLs like: http://backstage.musicchoice.com/songid/channels/soundsoftheseasons.asp http://backstage.musicchoice.com/songid/channels/rap.asp http://backstage.musicchoice.com/songid/channels/opera.asp etc... Now, if I were a more eager hacker, I'd write up little WSDL stubs for these event streams (they're clearly not worried about load, since their own web pages specify 15 sec meta-refresh) and then feed 'em through a content router to alert me to cool songs. Heck, cross-reference the service to CDDB and... :-) RK