#blogpost #music #coding

So, thanks to @limebar@mastodon.social and @scy@chaos.social who implemented this feature for TIBR and TIBtv, I discovered how to send metadata to the system media player when you play my music on my site (using the Media Session API).

What this means is that you can now see the title, artist and artwork in your system player when you play a song on sknob.fr/music.

It could have ended there, but that’s when things got out of hand...

#blogpost #music #coding

When you can’t choose between two options, choose both?

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I didn’t see that one coming...

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Introducing... Radio sknob!

#blogpost #music #coding

Note: These #coding posts are really notes to my future self. Do feel free to ignore them.

So, it seems I like to do the opposite of what you’re supposed to do...

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Before anything else, I moved the project to Git, and created a (private) repo on Codeberg. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it.

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WARNING: Long geeky post. Proceed with caution.

Long story short, the code underlying my music site was nearly 15 years old, and woefully obsolete.

I'd only been meaning to update it for about a decade...