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We had a serious problem in the office.
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People would wander around aimlessly.
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Wouldn't do any work.
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They couldn't even dance!
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We need music. I invented "play".
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Play is like your company's DJ.
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Lets everybody vote on songs, control your speakers,
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and lets you figure out who keeps requesting Alanis Morrissette.
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And you can do all of it through a cool API.
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We tell Hubot what to play, and he usually plays it.
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He's a dick sometimes, but he usually plays it.
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Play is a webapp. To install it,
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read the fuckin' README.
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Honestly, people starting out screencasts with installing stuff is the most boring thing in the world.
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Okay, so it's installed. When you're ready to go
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say "play -w" and that will boot up your play instance for you.
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This is play. Right on the frontpage is the queue,
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these are songs people have requested play to play.
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From here you can drill down into artists, albums -- whatever you want.
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If you want to play a song you just click "play".
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That gets queued up behind everything else.
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Once all these play, your song plays. Very simple.
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As you can see here there's also a download link,
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so if you legally obtain this music and have
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*full rights* to this music, you can download a copy straight from the browser to your machine.
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Kind of rad.
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There's also search, there's also profile links so there's some social going on.
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Lots of social. And that's play.
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The other part of play is the music server.
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This actually plays your music.
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To run that all you have to do is type "play -d" and it'll start the music.
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[music plays]
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So that's all cool, for those of you who are like:
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"I like webpages and shiny buttons!"
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But the rest of us, that's why we built an API.
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That's how we built play into Hubot.
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So this is Campfire. Campfire is how we talk to our bot Hubot, who know how to
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integrate with play quite well.
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First you just tell him "Hubot, I am Holman",
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which in this case is true (I hope) and this basically tells him what your username on
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GitHub is, because that's how we handle the authentication in play,
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we just use OAuth to connect to Github and it's really easy.
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Next you can say "Hubot, unpause play." Actually just "unpause".
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And that will unpause the music.
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At that point you can ask it what's playing,
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and it will dutifully respond to you with with poignant suggestions.
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At that point you can say "Hubot play deadmau5".
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Because I really want to play deadmau5.
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This is then going to queue up a bunch of deadmau5 tracks.
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If I want to say "Hey, I want deadmau5 right fuckin' now!"
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"Hubot play next" -- it'll skip this song and play the next song.
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You can also request specific albums, you can request specific artists,
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and specific songs.
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You can also say "Hubot I want this song" and it'll give you a link to download this song.
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You can also say "Hubot I want this album" and it will give you a link
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to download the zip of the album.
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Naturally, do that if you have *full rights* to the songs,
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etc etc.
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Also fun stuff: "Hubot volume 3", and that will adjust
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the volume from Campfire to your speakers.
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You can also do other fun stuff and Hubot will be able to talk to you.
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[Computer voice: "I like big butts and I cannot lie"]
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So that's play -- that's play in Campfire with Hubot integration.
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Now you probably expect to pay five, six, maybe seven thousand dollars a month for this,
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but I'm giving it to you *for free*.
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Jesus.
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So enjoy play.
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And let me know what you're playing, and don't use this to play shitty music.
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Or I'll find you.
