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Title: Export Playlist as RSS
Post by: skidoo on June 16, 2005, 07:49:41 am

I want to dump my Top Hits smartlist thing out to an RSS 2.0 file. So I can display the songs in a sidebar on my blog. I don't see a plugin available for MC10 that does this. Does anybody have one in the works? Is there some other way to do this that I'm missing?

Title: Re: Export Playlist as RSS
Post by: skidoo on June 16, 2005, 08:22:02 am

I would probably set the items in the feed (the song titles) to link to the Media Center website.

Title: Re: Export Playlist as RSS
Post by: skidoo on June 16, 2005, 02:40:00 pm

I went on and wrote a little application to spit out an RSS feed based on whichever MC playlist you select. You can configure the feed title, the feed description, and the main feed link. Each feed item is formatted like so:

name: [artist] - [song title]
description: [album]
link: A CDDB search on [artist] [song title]

I would've used YADB, but there's no web interface. I would've used FreeDB, but its web interface is frankly pretty ugly.

Here's the feed in action: http://trip23.textamerica.com

If anyone's interested, just let me know.