{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-12T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/06\/12\/on-my-speakers\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:20:29","slug":"on-my-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/12\/on-my-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"On my speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
I had an email from Mat<\/a> this week asking how I get the ‘On my speakers’ sidebar feature on my blog. Instead of just telling Mat, I thought I’d share with you all!
\n
\nI’d wanted to add this feature to the blog for some time due to some unexplained geeky desire. I came across a post<\/a> on Ask MetaFlter<\/a> by chance and it pointed me to the website of IndieRock<\/a>, an application that was created in response to an earlier Ask MetaFilter post!<\/p>\n

Basically, IndieRock monitors what iTunes is playing and outputs a plain text file to an FTP server. Simple as that. I’ve got mine to start up when I log in, so it’s almost all set every time I use my PC. I say almost<\/i> as unfortunately you have to type your FTP password at the start of every session, but I don’t see this as a terrible inconvenience – it helps me to remember what my password is!<\/p>\n

Once the text file is in a suitable place on the server, I include a breakdown of the first line using an embedded PHP script as follows:<\/p>\n


\n<div class=\"side\">
\n<?php
\n$filename = 'indierock.txt';
\n$size = filesize($filename);
\nif($size == \"0\"){
\n print(\"<em>currently not loaded<\/em><br\/>\");
\n} else {
\n $file = file(\"indierock.txt\");
\n foreach($file as $line) {
\n $elements = explode(\"t\", $line);
\n break;
\n }
\n if($elements[0] == \"Unknown Artist\"){
\n } else {
\n print(\"Artist: \" . $elements[0] . \"<br\/>\");
\n }
\n if($elements[1] == \"Unknown Title\"){
\n } else {
\n print(\"Song: \" . $elements [1] . \"<br\/>\");
\n }
\n if ($elements[2] == \"Unknown Album\"){
\n } else {
\n print(\"Album: \" . $elements[2] . \"<br\/>\");
\n }
\n}
\n?>
\n<\/div>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

I then had to put the following in a file called .htaccess in the public_html folder on the web server:<\/p>\n


\nRemoveHandler .html .htm
\nAddType application\/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

This tells Apache (the web server) to do something with the embedded PHP instead of just displaying the code.<\/p>\n

That’s it!<\/p><\/div>\n

I had an email from Mat this week asking how I get the ‘On my speakers’ sidebar feature on my blog. Instead of just telling Mat, I thought I’d share with you all!<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9681,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/9681\/","url_meta":{"origin":37,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udeb2 Fantastic new feature from\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"1 December 2022","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83d\udeb2 Fantastic new feature from TrainerRoad. 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