ProjectPlaylist, or playlist.com as it is now known, is one of of my favorite internet start-ups. They let you create playlists containing any tracks from their huge online catalog, and over time the service has only gotten better. Recently they dropped the ability to subscribe to your playlist as a podcast which has meant that users are confined to either streaming their music through Windows Media Player, or the online Flash player provided.

I set out to create a free third-party API to playlist.com which would provide any of the functionality that was lost. I haven’t got to the stage where the API can output playlists as valid RSS, but to demonstrate it working I’ve setup this Playlist.com track extraction demo which allows you to see where the tracks you use on your playlist were originally hosted.

The tool uses PHP, jQuery and Graybox. You can access it here.

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