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Notes from the index

What tens of thousands of stations announcing their titles makes possible, what turns up in the data, and what is being built on it. Written by the person who runs Tuneping, as things happen. English only.

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  1. № 02 6 min read

    Search for a song, find the station playing it, press record

    Tapelark records radio into a library of named tracks on your own computer. Tuneping knows which of 23,000 stations is playing what. The add-on joining the two is being built. Here is what it does, what it will not do, and a way to hear about it once, when it ships.

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  2. № 01 7 min read

    Twelve things you could build on a live index of internet radio

    Tuneping knows what about 23,000 stations are playing at this moment, and what 58,000 played over the last weeks. Here is what that is good for, with the endpoint each idea needs and the plan it takes. Most fit a weekend.

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