MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[jake-]

...Several new versions and features...

Very nice. Major improvements after returning from vacation

• summarizes the most popular post-rock artists from last.fm that are missing in your library: Already found some interesting artists


• tag correction "hip hop"/"hip-hop": Great idea. The destination can be only existing genres i guess?


• related artists sampler playlist: Thanks!

I have to agree that UI redesign is a topic but it has to be done by someone who is talented in this

jake-

BTW: the lyrics link isn't working too well. Maybe you could copy the part from the latest 4.7 moshup mod?
BTW2: is there a way to let you have a beer (or any kind of donation or an amazon wishlist or ...)?

[hakko]

I've made a mental note to allow new genre names as "corrected". When I've added it, you can make up your own aliases, but right now, you can only merge existing tags via the settings page.

It seems like Sindre has updated the lyrics search slightly in 4.7, I'll incorporate that and see if it works better.

If you know a kick-ass web designer with a lot of spare time, please send her/him this way it would be great to give the interface an overhaul!

As for donations, I really appreciate that offer. What would make me most happy is if you picked any charity organization of your choice (like doctors without borders, an animal rights organization etc) and gave them the money. That would be a good motivation for me. Thanks.

[precipitous]

Another HUGE problem I have is that I am no longer able to use Songbird (I have not tested any other external players yet)... When I try, instead of the set of tracks in the "play" area being sent, I get one of the tracks sent as many times as the total number of tracks in the "playlist". If I have 20 tracks selected I get one of them sent to Songbird 20 times!

I've finally addressed this. Songbird should work fine now in the new release, 0.7.7.

Thank you for resolving this issue. After installing 0.7.7 I am again able to use Songbird as an external player (I had to disable the VLC plug-in for Firefox first)...

[hakko]

btw: another good way of contributing to this project, would be to give constructive feedback on the MusicCabinet code. What can be done better? What would annoy you if you were to start working on this project? Any Java/SQL feedback is interesting. https://github.com/hakko/musiccabinet

[hakko]

Do you ask about albums displayed in the "Home" view? That layout may change (or be configurable into different options). If you're asking about how albums are displayed for a single artist, that's not likely to change anytime soon. I don't like this Subsonic layout: http://imgur.com/vZKAI , I think that album art and album name should be placed together and that albums should be displayed chronologically, not based on folder names.

You can of course also edit the source to fit your own needs. Look into the .jsp files in C:/subsonic/jetty (or equivalent), you can change them and create your own interface.

[hakko]

Some of your feature request (tag aliases, lyrics search, album layout in Home screen) have been added together with integration of last.fm recommended artists. Enjoy! viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777&p=44973#p44973. Post further questions here.

[Ultraviolet]

Awesome! The alias feature cleans things up nicely. I've only been playing with this for a short while, but the only odd behavior I've noticed is that the text size (on the Genre page) of the genre alias or combined genre name doesn't seem to reflect the sum of all the combined genres. For example, I used "1990s" as a name that includes last.fm genres of "1990s", "90s", "90's" and "90s dance". The breakdown of "artists in library" (from the Genre page) is as follows:
1990s 4
90s 506
90's 13
90s dance 6

The "1990s" text on my Genre page is tiny though--about the smallest on the page. I'm guessing it's just reflecting the original count of 4 and not summing all included genres.

I'm running a full scan now to check out the Recommended feature. Great stuff! Thanks again for all your hard work.

Actually, it seems I've lost the ability to manually kick off a scan:

[hakko]

Oh, I moved the scan kick-off to Settings -> Media Folders. I planned to do as Sindre and integrate Media Folders and Search into one single page (just keeping Media Folders), as Media Folders has changed behavior compared with 4.6 where a scan was automatically started when adding Media Folders. But since that doesn't happen anymore, it makes sense to have both configuration and the manual scan start on the same page. But then I got tired of working with GUI code again and finished half through, sorry. I'll finish it later on.

[phantom4]

I'm really liking the 0.7.8 release, but I found a couple of issues. For some reason, I'm getting a NullPointerException when trying to load some playlists. It doesn't happen on every playlist, but there doesn't appear to be anything different about the ones that don't load. They're standard m3u files and worked fine in version 0.5.5 and Subsonic 4.6/4.7b3.

Here's the exception:

Exception java.lang.NullPointerException
Message null
Java version Oracle Corporation 1.7.0_06
Operating system Mac OS X 10.7.4
Server jetty-6.1.x
Memory Used 153 of 218 MB
Stack trace java.lang.NullPointerException at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.PlaylistService$M3UFormat.loadPlaylist(PlaylistService.java:216) at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.PlaylistService.loadPlaylist(PlaylistService.java:103) at net.sourceforge.subsonic.controller.LoadPlaylistController.loadPlaylistConfirm(LoadPlaylistController.java:84) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController.invokeNamedMethod(MultiActionController.java:471) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController.handleRequestInternal(MultiActionController.java:408) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController.handleRequest(AbstractController.java:153) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:900) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:827) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:778) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:311) at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:116) at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:83) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:113) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:101) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:113) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.java:146) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:54) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter.doFilter(RequestCacheAwareFilter.java:45) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.www.BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(BasicAuthenticationFilter.java:150) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:182) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilter(LogoutFilter.java:105) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:87) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:323) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:173) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:346) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:259) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at net.sourceforge.subsonic.filter.RequestEncodingFilter.doFilter(RequestEncodingFilter.java:43) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at net.sourceforge.subsonic.filter.ParameterDecodingFilter.doFilter(ParameterDecodingFilter.java:54) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at net.sourceforge.subsonic.filter.BootstrapVerificationFilter.doFilter(BootstrapVerificationFilter.java:54) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:506) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:830) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:381) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:396) at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)

Also, this is not strictly a problem with MusicCabinet/Subsonic, but I'm a pretty heavy user of SubsonicTV (on the Roku) and since upgrading to the 0.7.x versions of MusicCabinet, songs no longer play in the standard interface. When you hit 'play', it goes into the standard video playing interface, full screen (in this case blank) with a play bar. I'm not sure what going on there other than it looks like it thinks it's a video file. If I switch back to Subsonic 4.6/4.7b3 with the same music, it plays properly in the app interface.

[hakko]

I'll look into this playlist issue - sounds like I haven't been careful enough to handle all situations, sorry.

I'm not sure about the SubsonicTV/Roku issue though. I guess I have to post over at their forum for getting help troubleshooting. I suppose it uses the REST API, like other apps? I only tried the 0.7 release on iSub and streaming music worked on it.

The REST API for random songs (as an example) on my 0.7.8 install returns XML like this:

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<song id="287314" parent="3946" title="Notion" isDir="false" album="Moleskine" artist="Sometree" duration="268" bitRate="278" track="2" year="2004" size="9387087" suffix="mp3" contentType="audio/mpeg" isVideo="false" path="Sometree/Moleskine/02 Notion.mp3"/>

.. which conforms to the official example.

However, when I checked how the REST API behaves for songs on the Subsonic demo server, it returns slightly different XML:

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<song id="558" parent="439" title="Tag am Meer" album="Microdub-Nummer eins" artist="Microdub" isDir="false" coverArt="439" created="2009-10-03T12:04:54" duration="210" bitRate="128" track="4" year="2008" genre="Reggae" size="3408000" suffix="mp3" contentType="audio/mpeg" isVideo="false" path="Microdub/Microdub Nummer Eins/04 - Tag am Meer.mp3" albumId="10" artistId="7" type="music"/>

.. so I could try to adapt to that (and add type="music") and see if it makes a difference, first of all.

I'll send you a new subsonic.war for evaluation in a day or so.

[vollbr0t]

Wow, great update! I love the recommendation-function! Awesome!

[jake-]

Some of your feature request (tag aliases, lyrics search, album layout in Home screen) have been added together with integration of last.fm recommended artists. Enjoy! viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777&p=44973#p44973. Post further questions here.

Great update! Thanks.

It seems I cannot disable the display of certain genres anymore (check mark isnt saved). Genre cloud is quite large now

[vollbr0t]

I think the search-function is not working properly. I don't know under what conditions, but some songs, albums or artists can't be found through a search query, while others return the correct results.

Does anyone else experience this?

[hakko]

I think that if you searched for an artist like http://www.discogs.com/artist/The+The, the search wouldn't match as it's basically a word search, that ranks very common English words low. When I wrote the search mechanism, I had super long TO DO-list and with the search mechanism I aimed for "good enough" rather than "awesome". I don't have any specific plans right now but it might change in the future, a fuzzy search looking for artist/album/song names in your database would be a much better idea than a word search.

[vollbr0t]

I think the search-function is useless right now. It can't even find songs like "My Horse Likes You". Obviously every word is filtered out!? ... songnames kind of often contain common english words...
Another example... i have an artist called "Nick Cave & Warren Ellis"... the only way to find it is to search for "Ellis". Any other word (like "Nick Cave" or only "Nick" or even "Warren Ellis") does not find anything...