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Yahoo! Music API: Listen

The Yahoo! Music API  is up and running. You can browse similar artists, gather more info than you ever wanted to know about a particular artist, get lists such as the most popular artists, and get user recommendations and ratings, to name a few. There’s also an easy-to-integrate Flash video player to let you embed music videos on your site.

The API has a liberal Flash policy file, so Flash and Flex developers can use it in their applications worry-free. Time to hone those E4X skills.

Note: The proper version of Flash Player is not installed or JavaScript is not enabled. Unable to display SWF content.

The above example shows the top 25 artists in a Flex BubbleChart. The y axis shows popularity, with the most popular artists on top. The x axis shows the change since the last time the chart was taken, and the size of the bubbles is determined by the track count of the artist on Yahoo! Music.

Hover your mouse over the bubbles for more info. Click here for the source. (Note that this example also covers custom data functions for using complex XML in Flex charts, if you are so inclined.)

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