I’ve been asked if I will make my music blogger a part of Rollator. The answer is ‘Yes’. It’s highly based off of Michael Simmon’s iTunes Watcher. I don’t support all of his blogging information, but his application is truthfully what brought me to do this. Kung-Tunes was waaaay too much work and CPU intensive for me to consider supporting (but it’ll work as well).

It’s an amazingly trivial API, and should stay fairly static – I like to keep things light.

It’s a subfunction (currently) of the administrative interface – to log to it, first setup your musicauth string (kind of a simple password) within your rollator-conf.php file, for example:

$musicAuthKey=”IamLeetzor”;

Then, setup your external logging application – either Info Sender for WinAmp 2, or iTunes Watcher will work (with trivial modifications).

To use Info Sender:

Tell Info Sender to submit the url as follows:

http://mysite.com/path/to/rollator/admin.php?op=tunesubmit&auth=IamLeetzor&title=

Note that this currently has the implication that both the artist and the title will be reported as the title, and is a shortcoming of Info Sender’s current implementation. You should be ‘set to go’!

To use iTunes Watcher:

Setup iTunes Watcher to post to:

http://mysite.com/path/to/rollator/admin.php

Then modify the line that is:

set currentdata to ” -d auth=” & auth

to read:

set currentdata to ” -d op=tunesubmit -d auth=” & auth

Save the iTunes Watcher script as ‘No Startup Screen’ and ‘Keep Open’. Open iTunes. Start up iTunes Watcher. You’re good to go!