MP3Tunes contest: XMMS2 support?
MP3Tunes may or may not be an Evil (as in Axis of ~) service, but it just announced a developer contest to encourage people to implement its API and create new interfaces (on the desktop, mobile phone, TV, toilet seat, whatever).
The contest page on the official website isn’t quite as verbose as one would have hoped, though, and the link to the rules points to a missing webpage. Some more intel is however available in a blog post on Michael Robertson’s blog. Yes, Michael MP3.Com/Linspire Robertson, who is also Michael MP3Tunes Robertson, obviously.
The deal: you have until November 5th, 2007, to submit an interface to MP3Tunes in one of the ten predefined categories (Desktop Player, Game Console, WebUI, PDA, etc). The winner in each category will receive a cosy $1000. I haven’t determined whether it’s a public vote, a closed jury, or some other semi-random algorithm involving car-driving girafes.
I haven’t yet checked what the API offers, either, but I sure wonder whether we could hack something together with XMMS2. If it could be hooked into the daemon, and apart from the obvious ever satisfying benefit of being neat and fun, it might allow using any of our interfaces (AKA clients) to play music from MP3Tunes.
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