{"id":3861,"date":"2006-07-25T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T07:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/24\/hot-tunes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:38:46","slug":"hot-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/25\/hot-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6382,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/197847221&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/197847221&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Goofy idea that I don&#8217;t have the programming chops to create:<\/p>\n<p>A plugin for iTunes (originally I was thinking of a separate program, but I think that this could probably all be done through Applescript) that, when activated, polls the weather services on the &#8216;net for the current temperature and then randomly selects a song from the year that matches the current temperature. A sunny summer day of 85\u00b0 would produce synthpop from 1985, a cool fall afternoon of 63\u00b0 would play the rock and roll of 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Options that should be included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some form of fahrenheit\/celsius recognition.\n<ul>\n<li>Switch between the two systems (85\u00b0F\/1985 is 29\u00b0C\/1929).<\/li>\n<li>Converting between the two (85\u00b0F plays 1929, 29\u00b0C plays 1985).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Choosing songs from the decade, rather than the year (85\u00b0 plays songs from 1980-1989, 72\u00b0 plays from &#8217;70-&#8217;79).<\/li>\n<li>Applying some alteration (plus or minus <em><strong>X<\/strong><\/em>, other transformations) to affect the temperature to year conversion (otherwise, most places would get a <em>lot<\/em> of songs from the 70&#8217;s through the summertime, and many people don&#8217;t have a huge collection of 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s tunes to listen to during the winter months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of silly little one-trick pony that could only be released as freeware, and likely wouldn&#8217;t get a ton of usage. It amused me when the idea crossed my mind, however.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, the song I&#8217;m listening to at the moment &#8212; which will be noted at the bottom of this post &#8212; was released in 1979, because according to my &#8216;puter, it&#8217;s 79\u00b0F outside. At 11:20pm. Ick. Yes, I&#8217;m whining. Yes, Colorado, Arizona, and many other places are hotter than it is here in Seattle. I&#8217;m still whining. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/197847221\/\" title=\"Flickr: I told you it was hot in Seattle...\">Candles shouldn&#8217;t melt<\/a> when they&#8217;re not lit.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DKermit the Frog\/Rolf the Dog%2526songTerm=I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along' on the iTMS\">I Hope That Somethin&#8217; Better Comes Along<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DKermit the Frog\/Rolf the Dog%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Kermit the Frog\/Rolf the Dog' on the iTMS\">Kermit the Frog\/Rolf the Dog<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DKermit the Frog\/Rolf the Dog%2526albumTerm=Muppet Movie, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Muppet Movie, The' on the iTMS\">Muppet Movie, The<\/a> <\/em> (1979, 3:58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plugin for iTunes that polls the weather services on the &#8216;net for the current temperature and then randomly selects a song from the year that matches the current temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[6,80],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-humor","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}