As of today it is possible to embed any baked playlist from the Playlistify Directory in forms of an interactive gadget onto your site or blog. This means that you could bring your offline iTunes playlist onto Facebook and share it with your friends, or make your ‘this-months-favourites’ listing on your own blog interactive instantly by (re)-publishing it through Playlistify and embed it instantly. You can see a live example in this post, just hit the Play button to start listening.
The best about the embeddable playlist is that I scripted it with a Youtube player and single-click-copy-to-Spotify option. So you can instantly play almost any track directly through the embed or launch Spotify and start listening to the playlist instantly. By the way, we are looking into Rhapsody support at the moment.
Furthermore the playlist’s tracks have links to buying the song on Amazon, Twittering the track, link to Last.fm’s artist page and Youtube search results for the current artist. Click on the info button located on the right top to toggle more information and share options.
Start baking, sharing and discovering playlists now!
PS for the nerds: the gadget fully runs on Amazon S3, I store the playlist data and the gadget overthere, so there is no serverload at all, serving these gadgets to potentially zillions of users without a cent of pain. Well errrr,… leaving out the credit card statement here… :D
PS 2 for the nerds and others: The Youtube player script I use is not a hack or work around: It is just build upon Youtube’s own REST data API, returning JSONP responses and assuming the no.1 result has to be the track currently requested to play. It starts playing inside the Youtube JSapi enabled player and listens to the events to look for a next track after the current one stopped playing. Actually one can say the whole proces is Client-side-based as there is no server side interaction, everything is written in javascript.
