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Dutch developers win contest with spotify cover scanner mash-up by wwy yrj
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Dutch developers win contest with spotify cover scanner mash-up by WWY YRJ
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A team of Dutch developers won a 30-hour hacking challenge at theNext Web conference Thursday with a service that uses a webcam toscan album covers in the database of online streaming music serviceSpotify. The service, called Covify, scans the covers and matches them withSpotify's library. "We love Spotify," but getting an albumcollection into the service can be difficult, the developers said.With Covify, the developers want to help Spotify users scan theirCD and LP albums into the service without the hassle of manuallysearching for each title. The tool is meant for people who still own a "pile of old CDs," thedevelopers said during their three-minute presentation at the endof the challenge.
They came up with the idea last weekend and built covify.com during the 30-hour competition. Users can scan covers via a Webapp or sign up for a beta version of a Covify iPhone app. The juryawarded them first place in the competition and a prize of 5,000(US$6,602) in credit to be spent with event sponsor Joyent. The 22 developer teams competing had to use APIs (applicationprogramming interfaces) provided by different API partners.
Apartfrom Spotify APIs, others were provided by partners includingFacebook, DropBox and the Dutch telecom operator KPN. The second prize was awarded to the developers of VersionBox , an application that uses the DropBox API to track version changesin image files. The application lets users track changes in imageswhen collaborating on visual projects. Third place was awarded to the developers of the energy-saving game Electric Vampires . The game entices users to save energy in their homes throughchallenges such using as little energy as possible in an hour orshutting off all the lights in the house.
When the task iscompleted, the user earns points that can be viewed and compared toother home owners using the application on a global leader board.The game was also developed for use by utility companies that wantto reduce power, for instance during especially hot summer days. Developers also dreamed up services such as Parti.fi , a Spotify hack that aims to "kill the 30 second DJ at parties."The idea for the app was born out of the frustration the developershad at parties where anyone can play whatever music they want,resulting in songs being played for 30 seconds before somebody elsesteps in and to chooses another song. With Parti.fi, users canorganize a party via Facebook and people who say they will attendget access to a Spotify party playlist so that the process of whatmusic gets played is democratized. Another less serious effort was called TrollBox , which uses the DropBox API, among others, to pull an office prankon co-workers who forget to lock their computers when they leavetheir desks.
The developed application allows users to give anyphoto stored on the computer a troll-face. The developers said theylove office pranks. All hacks were listed on a wiki-page and some developed applications were listed on open source coderepository GitHub. Loek covers all things tech for the IDG News Service. Follow him onTwitter at @loekessers or email tips and comments to loek_essers@idg.com. I am an expert from Sports & Entertainment, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as men's golf gloves , horse shipping boots.
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