Digital Archive Streamer (http://waxandwane.org/das/) is an alternative streaming front-end to digital archives of field and 78 rpm recordings. The original archive sites have searching front-ends, but a user has to click on each tune individually to play it. Using the DAS site a user can create a custom playlist of tunes and stream the entire list. Uses AJAX to display selections as the user types a Perl regular expression for filtering. The user then chooses between XSPF, M3U, PLS, or RAM playlist formats for streaming.I'll continue to add more archive collections as I find them!
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So this is made out of specific archives that you select? How do you index the selected archives?
I'm digging the results, by the way. Archival/78-era music is my main musical interest these days, and I like the Ajaxy interface you put together. My one beef is that I can't bookmark result sets.
Glad you're enjoying it! I'm always looking for more archives to add, so let me know of any. There are a couple of archives that I have indexed but not published because the sites ask to respect bandwidth limitations. I'm hoping to work out some arrangement with them.
For indexing the archives I analyze the site and then develop scripts. For regularly updated archives, like Berea College's, I run my scripts about once a week to gather up the new items. For static archives, like the Henry Reed collection, it's a one time job.
Others have asked about bookmarking as well, so I'll work on that this week.
Done -- I added a bookmark button, plus I made it so that if you navigate away from the page and then use the back button to return, it remembers where you were.
I'm now looking into adding an audio player directly on the page.
Cheers! -Ross
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