Realtime now playing Song Titles & iTunes Links!

19 Jan 2008 | 1 Comment | posted by James M | in Industry Insider

Our development wizards have been busy yet again working their magic with your currently playing song titles. As you may or may not know, SHOUTcast has a ‘now playing’ field which will usually display the current on-air song.

To access this, we have for years provided a simple snippet of javascript to paste onto your website, however, this has always needed to have the page refresh before it will update. We have now created a system so it updates automatically, without the need for the page to refresh.

The best bit – the code you guys actually paste onto your website is still exactly the same (see example below) – we understand that lots of code can confuse you! thats why we have always had a simple ‘cut & paste’ ethos when it comes to stuff for your websites.

Following feedback, we have added a download link for iTunes to this as well. So if a listener likes a song you are playing on the radio – not only can they find out what it is, but then they can go to download it instantly from iTunes.

Live Demo:

Code Example:

  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.wavepanel.net/P6B5U2OPYWZ0VG1Y/status/song/"></script>