One Dutch Song a Day

I made a nerdy present for my girlfriend. I give her a Dutch song every day!

The way it works is through an RSS-feed. For the newbs: that’s how we subscribed to news before Google, Facebook or Apple told us what we should read.

My server runs a Cron-job every day at 6 AM, which randomly picks a file from a ‘songs’-folder, adds the date as a UNIX-timestamp to the filename, moves the file to a ‘published’-folder and then makes an RSS-feed out of all the files in this folder.

So my songs folder looks like this:

de_dijk_binnen_zonder_kloppen
nielson_sexy_als_ik_dans
de_jeugd_van_tegenwoordig_sterrenstof

The published folder looks like this:

1433908861-de_dijk_binnen_zonder_kloppen
1433563261-nielson_sexy_als_ik_dans
1433736061-de_jeugd_van_tegenwoordig_sterrenstof

The files internally look as follows:

Band-name
Song-title
Youtube link

And from this an RSS-feed is generated.

Since everything works from Dropbox, I can add new songs virtually everywhere. And the generated RSS-feed is accessible even if my server is down.