Hacking Music APIs
Via the excellent ProgrammableWeb blog, I discovered Music Hack Day. Two days filled with information, workshops and hacking of music APIs. It must have been some interesting days, because the resulting hacks are all great.
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One thing that has been bothering me with social services is the difficulty of creating a backup. What would happen if Twitter suddenly dissapeared, or even worse, what would you do without your Delicious bookmarks? It has happened a few times before, services like Geocities and Stick-it were closed almost over night (I’m exagerating, but if you are on holidays in the wrong period, you might come back to see your data gone)
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More …JLayer, Java MP3 decoder
For a hobby project, I wanted to play and analyze MP3 files from a Java program. It turns out that’s not as easy as you might think. Probably due to licensing issues MP3 playback is not included with the standard Java development kit. Luckily there are some great people at JZoom (formerly JavaZoom) have created an open source library to help out: JLayer (formerly JavaLayer).
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