Twune: Tweet your tunes
Monday, April 6th, 2009A while back a spent a little time creating a simple service that allows tune-tweeting with legible, short URL. For example, twune.net/DioDiver will play Holy Diver by Dio. And twune.net/BeatlesHand will give you The Beatles’ I Want To Hold Your Hand.
The scheme was inspired by some of the cool work that Morten Just has been doing by mashing up YouTube videos with different data sources — and I was happy Morten let me re-use some of his code.
The service works by parsing the search string from the url (using WikiWords or whatever you’d call them). It then tries to find a perfect match on Yahoo! Music which will be played in Yahoo’s video player. If that doesn’t work, the search is passed on to YouTube with the help of Morten’s player. It’s that simple.
The name of the service was suggested by @guan. I had originally wanted to call it Twack. Still unsure which is best?