LaForge - Play List for Tracking Independent Radio

1. LaForge: Playlist Tracking for
Independent Radio
Tom Buttner, RCOS Rookie

2. Playlist Tracking
● Required for license
● “Top 40” charts
● Tracking period: 2 – 4
weeks / semester
● A big pain in the
ASCAP

3. The User
● WRPI's Djs currently
track playlists by hand
● 1 Song at a time
● Small “tracking slips”
submitted for each 1
to 2-hour show
● Compiled by hand
● Slips get lost, shows
go untracked

4. Picard, PUIDs, and Musicbrainz
● Heavily influenced
by Musicbrainz
Picard
● Adds two pieces:
listening and
logging
● LaForge isn't
Riker, but he's
definitely bridge
crew (and “Data” is
a lousy name for a

5. Libofa and Time Resolution

6. Project Status
● Coming soon: ● So far:
● Integrate listening ● Libofa library used to
● Integrate logging create fingerprints and
obtain PUIDs
● Make it robust
● PUIDs used to query
● Deal with libofa time musicbrainz and
resolution issue retrieve metadata
– Smarter listening
● Discovered libofa
– Try to change libofa restrictions on time
resolution

7. Thanks To
● Sean O'Sullivan, Moorthy, and RCOS
● Tim Horton
● Musicbrainz, MusicDNS, Lukas Lalinsky, Philip
Wolfer, and the rest of the Picard development
team