Music on Rails

This blog is for writing about song-list.net, and the technology used to build it. I’ve enjoyed lots of information people have posted online. Hopefully I can contribute a bit myself.

song-list.net is a side project (a distraction from) my main project which is expanding the capabilities of The Real Book Listening Guide (But that is a topic for another post).

The website was written using Ruby On Rails , MySQL and use of Amazon, Rhapsody (published), and Napster (unpublished) Webservices. Data from iTunes and eMusic was screen-scraped. In the upcoming weeks I hope to document some experiences using these tools.

The data collected so far is minimal (about 100 artists) since I wanted to go live with the application and see if it sparks some interest. Collection of data is automatic, but does require a human eye because all data is dirty. Over the next few months I should be able to improve the tools, the quality and the quantity of the data.