Pull from an online music database for artist and discography info
Here are some sites that are mashing up external sites and services:
- FoxyTunes planet - personalized music mashup integrating many music resources into one convenient place
- detailed overview - http://www.programmableweb.com/url/6337
- sample page - http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/johnny_cash
- MusicPortl tells you about almost every known artists biography by featuring wikipedia articles, links to recent blog posts.
- detailed overview - http://www.programmableweb.com/url/2723
- authors descriptions - http://www.musicportl.com/about
- sample page - http://www.musicportl.com/artist/Johnny+Cash
- sleevenotez - music album liner notes, bio, and other background for what you listen to. Builds on last.fm, Flickr, Amazon, MusicBrainz, and Wikipedia.
- detailed overview - http://www.programmableweb.com/url/4920
- sample page - http://www.sleevenotez.com/artist/d43d12a1-2dc9-4257-a2fd-0a3bb1081b86
I'm wondering if there are any examples, in Drupal, where similar artist/album pages are being generated by pulling from external sites. Not exactly sure how easy/difficult it would be to replicate, but it seems there may be a wide array of uses.
Any thoughts, experiences, suggestions on if/how this could be done?
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I've seen a Related Nodes module
I installed a related nodes module on MotionXML.com, and am in the process to try it out in the next weeks. I'd imagine Genre's would be tags.
Spry XML
If you create a Drupal web service to return XML from a queried search (in this case about Johnny Cash), you could use either jQuery or Spry to output the XML in any way you wanted. Here is a demo of Spry dynamically outputing XML data.