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What are you listening to now?: Implementing "Now Playing" feature in modern XMPP

AW1.126 | Day 2 | 14:15 - 14:45 | Speakers: Özcan Oğuz

What are you listening to now?: Implementing "Now Playing" feature in modern XMPP
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Abstract

Do you remember the "Now Playing" feature in MSN Messenger? It was a feature that make you able to see which song are your friends listening at the moment back in 2000s, but unfortunately it is mostly forgotten now.

In this talk, I will share the journey on my research on implementing this feature in modern XMPP clients, the protocols of certain operating systems to read the currently playing media, the current status of the support of XEP-0118[^1] and the PoC of a modern "Now Playing" feature.

[^1]: XEP-0118: User Tune

Speakers

Özcan Oğuz

Özcan Oğuz was born on a rainy June evening in Istanbul in one of the final years of the twentieth century, and before that century came to a close, he encountered computers thanks to an i486 DX2 machine his father brought home from a flea market. He started using free software and GNU/Linux at a young age, and continues to use and advocate it today. He worked on a wide range of jobs and projects from publishing to bioinformatics, from creative advertising to industrial IoT. He currently provides services to various companies as a software and solutions developer. He is the founding member and president of the Free Software Association in Turkey and founding member of Hackerspace Istanbul.

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