Boxee Music Quiz
From Music Hack Day
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[edit] The Name of your hack
Boxee Music Quiz -- Test your knowledge of your music library using the Rovi API, Echonest and Boxee.
[edit] Creators
John McCann ( linked in, twitter, syntactic noise )
Roberto Osorio-Goenaga (moral support) ( twitter )
[edit] About the hack
A web application written in Ruby on Rails reads in an iTunes library XML file. It can generate quiz questions by randomly choosing an artist from the iTunes library and querying the Rovi API for metadata about the artist. Rovi also provides similar artists and album names to allow quiz questions to have three incorrect and one correct answer. Some questions include audio snippets provided by the Echonest API.
The front end is implemented as a Boxee application. Users are presented with one question at a time and must choose between four possible answers. When a correct answer is chosen the application fetches a new question from the application server.
[edit] What APIs, tools or kit did you use?
- Boxee API
- Rovi API
- Echonest API
- Ruby on Rails
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