Monday, 26 April 2010

IDAT210 - Development Possibility: Webpage Music

After creating my finished piece for my project it occurred to me that there is another step that the project could take which would re-align its general concept but would also be a good and interesting development. This idea is centered around the idea of 'webpage music'. Due to the way that my project works it is easy to use the same system for any RSS feed url, and so it would be easy enough to make the project dynamic so that users could provide a url which is then turned into audio.  In this way music could be created for any RSS feed that the user provides.  This generalisation to any RSS feed means that the project would be more focused on the concept of any web feed being turned into sound and so the project could be classed as a webpage music generator, developing the sound of the internet, rather than simply a social networking page.
Being that this development should not be too difficult I decided I would try to create this version of my project as shown below:
However upon creating this I did come across a problem with this set up in that the system I was using was looking for the titles of posts rather than the content.  This is ok when using the Facebook posts as title and contents of the posts are the same, but in most RSS/ATOM feeds they are different, such as with these blog posts.  Therefore when using the system this way users would only get a musical representation of the titles of elements, and not the content.  As well as this I also tried the system with a standard RSS feed from Microsoft which did not seem to work as the application is based on using a ATOM format for the data.  This meant that for this version of my project to work I would have to incorporate elements which took both forms into account and which was also able to access the main content without any extraneous html data.  I therefore decided that although this is a good idea for a development in the future, it would be best to keep my application in its current 'sound of social networking' state.

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