Rut Roh Raggy, It's Ruxtape
Posted by ch0wda on Sep 02, 2008
I was a big fan of Muxtape, and I was extremely disappointed to once again see the RIAA shut them down, very reactionary. I loved the concept of being able to create your own playlist that you could distribute to people and have them listen. I didn’t care so much about other people’s mixes, preferring services like Pandora. I was very excited to see the concept resurrected by Opentape.
Opentape is really cool, but it’s written in PHP and I prefer Ruby. It’s a little early, but I wanted to announce that I’m working on an Opentape imposter called, ‘Ruxtape’. Why early? Because I haven’t exactly got a working flash player yet. :( I’m having a little trouble with the controls and such and so I’m hoping that before the next time I get a chance to work on it (maybe next week) somebody will have taken an interest and run with it. You can find the source on Github. Ruxtape Source
My goal is to have the same player control functionality that Opentape currently has and I’m trying to vendor all the gems and provide a Rack adapter so anyone running Passenger can just clone it and it’s up and running without any other dependencies. I am especially looking for people who understand Flash players and unobtrusive javascript.
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