Rich Caetano (@arsydotorg), 8tracks’ back-end developer, presented our new public API for playback — and a preview version of our forthcoming iPhone application — at Music Hack Day in Boston yesterday.
We issued our first official press release to announce the API, which is available at http://developer.8tracks.com/. Anyone can create music programming using the 8tracks platform — what we’ve always done — but can now add it to a third-party application (website, mobile, device) via the API.
This is a small first step toward establishing 8tracks as an online standard for sharing playlists in a legal, sustainable manner.
