BBC Radio Mashup

BBC Radio has an interesting mashup prototype that associates data from LastFM, LyricsFly, and MusicBrainz, as well as media from YouTube and Flickr, with currently playing song metadata.

The idea is to take the basic now-playing data from our music radio networks, throw it at the web, and see what we can get back. We could then use this, and other BBC API’s to create a pretty rich visualisation console pretty much automatically. We had a quick brainstorm and decided that we’d use the excellent Last.fm, the incredible MusicBrainz, and the usual suspects Flickr, YouTube, and LyricsFly.