A Spotify App on the Spotify Platform that lets you broadcast a playlist, and lets others listen to it in real-time, as you listen to it.

Made during Music Hackday London 2011 by Blaine Cook, Tom Armitage and Tom Taylor.

Make sure you're a registered Spotify developer. Then:

To develop the Spotify app, you'll need to symlink it into your Spotify folder.

On a Mac:

ln -s spotify_app ~/Spotify/drivetime

and then you should be able to access it by entering

spotify:app:drivetime

into the Spotify search bar.

To co-ordinate playback between broadcasters and listeners we have a simple node.js server with socket.io.

It requires node 0.6.4. Run it with node server/drivetime.js and change the javascript in spotify_app/index.html to point to the correct URL for your server. You'll need to update the spotify_app/manifest.json to allow access to your host.

Copyright (C) 2011 by Blaine Cook, Tom Armitage, Tom Taylor

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