Radio Pop Action Streams Profile

If you use the clever Radio Pop ser­vice that BBC Radio Labs launched a little while ago, and you also use the Action Streams plugin for Mov­able Type¹, this might come in handy:

Radio Pop Action Streams Pro­file [36KB .zip archive]

As you’d expect, it’s a pro­file for Action Streams that will add the radio pro­grammes you ‘pop’ to your ‘lifestream’.

To install the pro­file, down­load and unzip the archive, edit the file ‘config.yaml’, replac­ing the word ‘Username’ with your own Radio Pop user­name, and upload config.yaml and radiopop.png to the right places on your server, eg.:

/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/radiopop/config.yaml

/web/public/mt-static/plugins/radiopop/radiopop.png

Then you’ll need to acti­vate the pro­file in the usual way, by log­ging into Mov­able Type, nav­i­gat­ing to the Other Pro­files sec­tion, click­ing ‘Add Profile’ and choos­ing ‘Radio Pop’ from the drop-​down menu.

To get the little Radio Pop logo to show up in your lifestream, you’ll need to edit your Action Streams CSS file. Assum­ing you’re using the default tem­plates that ship with the plugin, adding a dec­la­ra­tion like this should do it:

    .service-radiopop {
        background-image: url(http://yourwebsite.com/mt-static/plugins/radiopop/images/radiopop.png);
        }
    

If you’d like the pro­file to track every­thing you listen to via Radio Pop, rather than just the pro­grammes you pop, change line 25 of config.yaml from

url: 'http://www.radiopop.co.uk/users/Username/pops.rss'

to

url: 'http://www.radiopop.co.uk/users/Username/listens.rss'

All this messy edit­ing busi­ness isn’t ideal, but I couldn’t work out how to get the pro­file to ask for your Radio Pop user­name when you acti­vate it, then con­fig­ure itself accord­ingly. If I do get around to making a clev­erer ver­sion, I’ll update this page straight away.

And, just in case anyone is won­der­ing what on earth I’ve been wit­ter­ing about, here’s what hap­pens on my home­page when I pop a programme:

1. To be honest, it’s pretty likely that I’m the only person in the whole wide world who uses both Radio Pop and Action Streams, but I thought I’d make the files avail­able on the offchance I’m not alone!↩

Posted at 3pm on 25/10/08 by Jack Mottram to the radio category.
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