John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public

Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by davnola on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:37PM (#3911334)

In the meantime, you can listen to every track from every John Peel Festive 50 at http://peelplayer.com

Disclaimer: it's a site I hacked together in a few hours for John Peel day last year

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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by Joeboy on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:05PM (#3911500)

That's awesome, thank you. I suspect this will waste a lot of my time.

What does the site actually do? Did you have to find all the tracks manually on Youtube? Were they all findable? What happens if they disappear?

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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by davnola on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:46PM (#3911706)

Cheers! Really enjoyed making it!

I compiled a JSON index of all the tracks from various sources. The site loads the index and calls the YouTube API to find the best match video. Simples! I manually blacklisted and whitelisted some video ids as reports of missing/broken tracks came in last year, but it's pretty robust as videos come and go.

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