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<title>Now Playing</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2003/04/30/nowplaying</biblioid>
<volumenum>6</volumenum>
<issuenum>4</issuenum>
<pubdate>2003-04-30</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
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<copyright>
      <year>2003</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>Can you hear me now?</para>
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<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Music"/>
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<para xml:id="p1"><quote>Now Playing</quote>
is a web service<indexterm>
      <primary>Web services</primary>
    </indexterm>.
More accurately, it's a web page, but the data is updated
by a
SOAP<indexterm>
      <primary>Web services</primary>
      <secondary>SOAP</secondary>
    </indexterm>
message from my laptop. And there's a (not yet documented) SOAP interface
to the data, too.</para>

<para xml:id="p2">Update: Sometime in 2004, I bought an iPod and moved
all the music off my laptop. As a consequence, I no longer have an API
to “what's playing” and cannot report it. Alas.</para>

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