I've written in a new plugin feature into the radio player....(Find MP3's From This Artist).
The feature finds any MP3's uploaded BY THE CURRENT ARTIST to their official social networking sites and are available for download on openly accessible web servers.
A demo of this new feature can be seen in the player below.
http://downloads.remlapsoftware.com/DownloadDemo.exe (2.98Mb)
This unique and legal feature enables your listeners to enhance their listening experience by being able to download tracks made available on social networking sites by the currently playing artist. As previously stated, all tracks are uploaded by the artist and are hosted on openly accessible web servers.
Broadcasters can switch this feature ON or OFF from within their InitialCommands script.
It's not a feature for every stream....those playing dj set for example. But for those broadcasting with the usual <Artist> - <TrackTitle> meta-tags, the feature works quite well and it's surprising just how many artists have uploaded tracks onto their social network sites.
Of course I am not recommending that this be a way of obtaining free music. By uploading these tracks onto social networking sites, the artists intended them to be a 'taster' and so this is how they should be treated in download format too. If a listener likes a particular artist they should be encouraged to go back and buy the album or better, see them live.
See what you think, I guanantee you will have never seen anything like this in a radio player before and it has the potential to make your own player a killer app.
Rob
www.remlapsoftware.com