Over the last week, starting on launch day, @scy has been helping us to make #TIBtv better for you and for artists. A huge debt of thanks to them for all of the help. Here's what we've improved in a week:
- custom css and js to enable now playing info (now 100% fancier) below the video on the site
- custom css and js to enable scrobbing with PanoScrobbler
- a WebScrobbler connector (will take time in their release process)
- a chat bot that posts now playing in chat when new tracks play
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@philnelson Basically I've written a Python application (https://codeberg.org/scy/tibd) that polls the Now Playing metadata from a HTTP endpoint provided by @limebar, fed directly from Liquidsoap.
Then I made it available in an SSE feed (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events) provided by my Python app.
In JavaScript, ist was reeelatively simple to then use EventSource to subscribe to that feed and get real-time updates.
That way, viewers don't need to poll the metadata endpoint and get realtime updates.
@philnelson But in your case, live updates probably aren't that important, since your videos are way longer than TIBtv's clips, so you could just have viewer's browsers poll the "now playing" data you already have behind that button 馃
You can check out custom.js and custom.css (https://codeberg.org/scy/tibd/src/branch/main/owncast-integration) for how we injected the text below Owncast's video player.
part of the answer is over here on TIBtv codeberg Readme, look for Owncast customization
@limebar Thanks! Happy to help :)
I'll admit, the main motivation behind this was that I love scrobbling music and needed some way to make that possible with #TIBtv 馃槄 But of course now everyone can benefit from these integrations.
Thanks to you and the #TheIndieBeat team for launching this thing in the first place, and implementing my feature requests!
If anyone wants to track progress on the #WebScrobbler connector, the pull request is here: https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/pull/5771
@scy
awesome!
I wrote an article over here on NHAM explaining how scrobbling can be helpful to indie artists... and if anyone doesn't know what scrobbling is or wants to learn how, this article can help as well: