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I put together a little app to tell me when bands I like come near me. I figured I might as well let other people use it, too. I even found a few bands that I would have missed while building it, so that's a plus.

Basically, you upload your iTunes Library.xml file. Then I parse it and email you the bands that play near you.

http://www.bandidate.com

Anyway, that's all it does. I'm curious what you people out there think. If nothing else, it was great for getting better with Rails. And it was pretty fun.

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arfrank
Where does it pull concert data from?

Also it would be cool to use last.fm data via a username instead of only iTunes data.

wait
I get it from Bandsintown. They have a pretty nice API.

Getting a list of bands from last.fm is a good idea. I'll add it to the "things to do" list.

arfrank
It'd also be nice if you could also pull iTunes data straight from a iOs or android device. I don't believe the APIs exist to do that via a web app, but it'd be nice.
wait
Yea, I was actually thinking about that. I have no idea how to pull that off, so it probably won't happen anytime soon.
juanito
Hey, I think it is a great idea.

Except that you limit it to people who use iTunes? You're shutting out a whole lot of people.

wait
I put it up with only iTunes because, well, I only had the library for iTunes and wanted to see if people used it. I figured iTunes was a good start and will to add more later.