2006 / FM4 Trackservice Scripts

Radio FM4 Trackservice Scripts

The Radio FM4 Trackservice Scripts are a set of shell and Perl scripts to archive and read track data from the FM4 website. The trackservice on the FM4 homepage lists recently-played tracks on the radio broadcast. We can use this and a little regular expression magic to archive and read/search the list of recently played tracks.

Utilities included

• fm4ts - Loads the current tracklist from the webserver
• fm4ts-list - Reads the downloaded tracklist cache (from the cronjob) and generates a "Artist - Song" listing
• fm4ts-search - Searches the list of songs from the tracklist cache
• trackservice.cron - A script to be scheduled as a cronjob, automatically downloads trackservice listings and archives it in ~/.trackservice/

Dependencies

Apart from the essential packages you get with a standard Debian GNU/Linux system, you will need the following extra packages:

• libwww-perl
• libdatetime-perl
• wget

Subversion repository

You can access the current codebase by using Subversion:

• svn co https://svn.thpinfo.com/repos/utils/fm4trackservice/trunk fm4trackservice

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