MMMeeja

Great excitement over at FriendFeed when they added an an integrated MP3 player for RSS feeds that contain enclosures.

Sadly, few feeds make use of enclosures (maybe this will change with FriendFeed’s new support) and one of the notable sites that could really benefit is Muxtape, a site that lets you create your own online mixtapes. So, since my last Yahoo Pipes creation was so successful, I set out to remedy this using another Yahoo Pipe.

The result is probably my most complicated pipe to date but it works pretty well. It uses the excellent Seeqpod music search service to try and find matching MP3s anywhere on the web. You need a Seeqpod API key to use the pipe, so sign up for an account and edit your profile to grab a key, as shown below:

Next head over to the the pipe and enter your muxtape name and Seeqpod API key. You should get a nice RSS feed that can be imported into FriendFeed as a blog. You can see mine in the MMMeeja FriendFeed room but I don’t have too many entries in the muxtape yet.

If the music on your muxtape is quite obscure, it is possible that Seeqpod won’t be able to find it. In that case the entry remains but it doesn’t get an enclosure so you won’t be able to play it in FriendFeed. Similarly, sometimes Seeqpod returns MP3 URLs that are no longer valid. Not much I can do to fix that, I am sorry.

Those of you that really want to add some noise to your FriendFeed, I’ve also created a similar pipe for last.fm recently listened items here.