TrackJockey is a Yahoo! Music Engine dll plugin that uses the Microsoft text-to-speech feature to announce the name of the track you just played. It works with your own custom playlists or with LaunchCast stations. It's a computer "disc jockey", so to speak.

Features:

• Reads custom phrases from "phrases.txt" file in the install directory
• runtime enable/disable via checkbox; also reloads phrases.txt file

Future features:

• custom phrases retrieved from the web
• insertion of soundbytes (mp3,wav,etc) from local storage or the web, e.g. Mr. Burns (YME bug precludes insertion at the moment)
• fetching custom phrases/soundbytes from a webservice based on genre, time of day, etc.
• trading of phrases/soundbytes with your Messenger friends
• configuration UI for MS Voice, plus additional voices to choose from
• insertion of RSS info read by the speech engine, e.g.
  • traffic alerts
  • upcoming concert info for current artist
  • notification that a friend's 360 blog was updated
  • stock alerts ("Holy Cow Yahoo stock is at 60 bucks")
  This gives a whole new meaning to the term "news reader" ;)
• Factoid/Trivia mode - inserts facts and trivia about artist that just played, e.g. "Damn bro do you realize Ted Nugent is 59" . Poses a trivia question about the artist at the beginning of the song and the answer is given when the song ends (and displayed on plugin's UI).
• scheduling of inserted phrases/info, e.g. announce "It's Quitin' Time" at 7pm
• Support for associating a custom user defined set of phrases per artist/genre or playlist
• DJ Subscriptions; fetches all custom inserts (phrases,sounds,rss,scheduler,factoids,trivia) from one or more of your Messenger Friends. Trivia questions/answers could come from your friends ;) Maybe Y! could provide access to celebrity artist TrackJockey data.
• speech recognition to control playlist and/or track selection, e.g. request TrackJockey to "play the Indie Rock station"

Known Issues

• YME limitations prevent smooth predictable operation with LaunchCAST stations sometimes. I've got some ideas on alternate implementations to get around this, and YME 1.1 API might help, too
• Plugin UI is sorely lacking; should show phrase history, allow direct access to phrase editor

YME TrackGuesser

Plays a few seconds from a random spot in a random song from your audio library - you have to guess the artist and title to gain points. Play against a friend or on teams at parties. Show everyone how much of a music snob you really are. See how many of your brain cells are devoted to useless song knowledge.