MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[precipitous]

Has anyone successfully set up an accordion view for the artist (left) panel of the MusicCabinet interface? Before I switched to MusicCabinet I used the Outlook theme by trickydick http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7238&start=15#p30390 and really liked the accordion feature. I tried to drop it into MusicCabinet, but was not successful...

If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it...

[hakko]

I'm re-writing the left panel (artist names are now taken from database, not from file names). It will take a little while but still, it will work completely different in the next version I release. So maybe it's not worth putting lots of effort into it right now? Depending on how badly you want it here and now, though.

(in the next version, this can theoretically be done server-side so that only artists that start with an A are returned, for example. that will reduce the size of the page and speed up the load time for people with huge libraries)

[treminaor]

First off I want to thank you for this awesome Subsonic mod... the additional information is such a nice touch.

I'm having a bit of a bug problem with the mod however... when I click "Play <genre> radio", it empties my playlist and nothing happens. I also can't play genres from the Genre cloud. Any ideas why this is? My MusicCabinet page says that MusicCabinet has finished setup and is working properly.

Also, how do you get MusicCabinet to refresh/look for new contents when new artists/albums are added?

I also wanted to chime in by saying that I found the white theme to be blinding - strains my eyes to look at for very long. As a result, I did a quick reskin of the interface... not sure if anyone else is interested in having it this way:

[hakko]

Hi!

Thanks for the feedback but sorry about it not functioning properly!

Which version are you using?

How is your music organized? Do you have separate folders for different artists, different albums etc?

If you select the largest genre from the genre cloud (probably "indie" or "rock", the biggest word simply), does it give you a list of artists? The more music you have, the more songs does it have to pick from, obviously. Is your music tagged well in general so that your song titles has correct values?

When you add new albums/artists, new metadata (biographies etc) will be read from last.fm the next time you update your search index from Settings -> Search.

Could you search for the file musiccabinet.log (this gets written to a temporary directory) on your hard drive and upload it together with subsonic.log and send me a link and I'll have a look if something looks weird!

[treminaor]

Hi!

Thanks for the feedback but sorry about it not functioning properly!

Which version are you using?

How is your music organized? Do you have separate folders for different artists, different albums etc?

If you select the largest genre from the genre cloud (probably "indie" or "rock", the biggest word simply), does it give you a list of artists? The more music you have, the more songs does it have to pick from, obviously. Is your music tagged well in general so that your song titles has correct values?

When you add new albums/artists, new metadata (biographies etc) will be read from last.fm the next time you update your search index from Settings -> Search.

Could you search for the file musiccabinet.log (this gets written to a temporary directory) on your hard drive and upload it together with subsonic.log and send me a link and I'll have a look if something looks weird!

Thanks for your response!
Version: Subsonic, original version 4.6. Built with MusicCabinet plugin, version 0.5.49, on June 24, 2012.
Organization: F:\Music\<Artist>\<Album>\<Song files>

Yes, 95% of my music should have correct tags as I take care to rip them properly. Clicking any genre gives me a list of artists, but does not generate a playlist when I click "play <genre> radio".
315 artists
500 albums
5,273 songs
53.24 GB (~ 827 hours)

musiccabinet.log: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7345145/image_ ... abinet.log
subsonic.log: <removed>

[hakko]

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[vollbr0t]

i think there is a lot of potential for expanding the use of last.fm within subsonic/musiccabinet... hakko, have you thought about creating chart-playlists using last.fm? there is an extensive subpage within last.fm (http://www.last.fm/charts) where all sorts of chart-lists can be seen... i think it would be really great to use this information to generate playlists in musiccabinet!

[hakko]

I totally agree that there's a lot more to do! I have such a long wish list for this project. The only problem with charts is that the Terms of Service for last.fm states that chart data is to be cached for seven days (so it can't be updated daily). see http://www.last.fm/api and http://www.last.fm/api/tos

but if you have concrete ideas of which api methods to use, and how to display the data, feel free to post! (and remember that it's open source, so you can start hacking on it yourself! and I'll incorporate your code into the project if it's well written and follows the general code standard. see https://github.com/hakko/musiccabinet)

[vollbr0t]

i don't know... for me it would not be absolutley necessary to have the VERY newest charts... one week old data is very much okay i think

[precipitous]

Regarding integrating more Last.FM data and functionality - I would LOVE to have the ability to select and play Last.FM (user) group radio in MusicCabinet much like we can now play genre radio. They have some really amazing group radio stations available like Brainwashed, The Real Dark Ambient Group, Cold Meat Industry, etc.

@Hakko - Would such a thing be possible?

[hakko]

I just listened to (and enjoyed) Brainwashed radio station, but I can't figure out how to integrate it? I can't find any way to extract historical playlists of what have been played at such a radio station (then that could be summoned into both "generate playlist of my matching tracks" and "show me a list of the tracks I miss"). How do you imagine it to work?

[precipitous]

I just listened to (and enjoyed) Brainwashed radio station, but I can't figure out how to integrate it? I can't find any way to extract historical playlists of what have been played at such a radio station (then that could be summoned into both "generate playlist of my matching tracks" and "show me a list of the tracks I miss"). How do you imagine it to work?

@hakko: I do not know how Last.FM handles the group radio stations, but I will do some research and get back to you... They have a fairly extensive API, and there is a lot of outside documentation available, so I am sure I will be able to figure out something. I know that there are methods for both groups and radios that return at least part of the data MusicCabinet would need, so hopefully it will not be too difficult to find the rest.

In case you are interested, the official Last.FM API site is: http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=8&t=9504&p=43505

[hakko]

I guess you mean http://www.last.fm/api ? One could fetch loved tracks for a user + top tracks for the last week or so and generate playlists out of that, but I'm not sure about radio stations? let me know if you find something useful!

[precipitous]

I guess you mean http://www.last.fm/api ? One could fetch loved tracks for a user + top tracks for the last week or so and generate playlists out of that, but I'm not sure about radio stations? let me know if you find something useful!

I guess I should have proof-read my post before submitting it.... I feel like a real idiot! **Note to self: remember to copy before pasting!)**

[hakko]

: ) np