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by **mvo** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:29 am

Do you think it's possible for SS to play music in random mode based off the initial artist selected and then branching out to songs from similar artists that are in your database? Similar to Pandora, Last.FM, Slacker, etc...?

by **mqchen** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:50 pm

mvo wrote:Do you think it's possible for SS to play music in random mode based off the initial artist selected and then branching out to songs from similar artists that are in your database? Similar to Pandora, Last.FM, Slacker, etc...?

It is in theory possible. Just have to figure out a good way to get javascript to communicate across frames (frames sucks...). The solution I have mind would probably have to change the content of the "main" frame for a split second though...

Anyway, I don´t have too much spare time right now, but we´ll see. Can´t promise anything...

by **nick2412** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:15 pm

THis doesn't seem to work anymore after LastFMs database issues on friday.

by **mqchen** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:10 pm

nick2412 wrote:THis doesn't seem to work anymore after LastFMs database issues on friday.

Hi! It seems to work fine over here...

The server is also responding: http://moquanc.at.ifi.uio.no/ArtistInfo ... adam+green

by **nick2412** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:13 pm

mqchen wrote:
nick2412 wrote:THis doesn't seem to work anymore after LastFMs database issues on friday.

Hi! It seems to work fine over here...

The server is also responding: http://moquanc.at.ifi.uio.no/ArtistInfo ... adam+green

nvm works now for some reason

, awesome work man..

greatly appreciated!!! This makes building a play list so much easier.

by **3R3** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:40 am

Hi, still checking this thread frequently in hope of someone with more time on their hands than me :/
I'd love to jump into making the artist list pop up from a small icon, but alas, right now is not the time for me...

And heres a littlle feedback from my users: they love it, makes any collection so much more explorable and accessible

(I love it too ofc, else I wouldnt have installed it

)

by **PoGo** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:41 pm

Hello,

First, thank you very much mqchen for your mod, it's for sure a must for Subsonic

I installed it, and I had to face some trouble that I solved now.
I thought I have to share it with you guys in case of someone has to deal with the same problem as me !

First : all the links to the javascripts starts with a "/", which means that if you running subsonic with a path like https://xxx/subsonic all the scripts are trying to be loaded from https://xxx/
In that case the Similar Artists script wont show up.
So, just delete the first "/" in the scripts.js, for example :

Code: Select all: load.injectDependency('/script/similar_artists/jquery.ba-postmessage.js');

will become

Code: Select all: load.injectDependency('script/similar_artists/jquery.ba-postmessage.js');

Second : if you are sharing music and video in the same subsonic, and if someone is viewing a movie while your listening to some music, the script cannot parse the artist name of the movie displayed in the "Listening now" window and will come with a blank artist name.
In that case, the application will reload and reload every 5 seconds.
Just edit the file similar_artists/similar_artists.js
and change at the line 98 :

Code: Select all: if(curArtist !=0) fetchSimilarArtists(curArtist);

instead of

Code: Select all: fetchSimilarArtists(curArtist)

Then the apps wont load an artist with a blank name.

Hope this can help someone in the future

Cheers.

by **mqchen** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:55 pm

@PoGo

Thanks for sharing your solutions to your problems! I´ll currently away on a trip, but I´ll commit the changes to the repository as soon as I get back. Or, if you´d like, feel free to fork the project on Github and make a pull request.

by **mvo** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:13 pm

mqchen wrote:
mvo wrote:Do you think it's possible for SS to play music in random mode based off the initial artist selected and then branching out to songs from similar artists that are in your database? Similar to Pandora, Last.FM, Slacker, etc...?

It is in theory possible. Just have to figure out a good way to get javascript to communicate across frames (frames sucks...). The solution I have mind would probably have to change the content of the "main" frame for a split second though...

Anyway, I don´t have too much spare time right now, but we´ll see. Can´t promise anything...

You could use cookies to stores the artist name or perhaps localStorage.

by **Minime** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:05 pm

This an awesome mod. It will definitely enhance the listening experience of all users and help them explore more artists they otherwise would not know about and/or listen to. I absolutely love it and will try to implement it soon. I am currently in the middle of migrating my server to a vmware based system and i might as well add this mod. looking forward. I will let you know how it goes and if i encounter any problems.

Thanks guys +++

by **Hellscream** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:21 pm

PFFF

I have tryed everything and doesnt work for me. I have SS 4.4 Strange thing is i dont get eny errors and im using google chrome browser.
Can someone try this link and post here is it working? At least i will get some directions what is wrong. http://hellscream.dyndns.org/ArtistInfo/jsonp.php

by **BKKKPewsey** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:13 pm

This is a great mod

but I just cannot get the server side bit 2 work. I have php installed on my WHS R1 which works fine but when I change similar_artists/similar_artists.js var to point to my own server I get a 500 error code. My knowledge of php is virtually non-existent so its probably something I'm doing wrong :oops:

by **Hellscream** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:18 pm

Try this link and tell me do u still get errors
http://hellscream.dyndns.org/ArtistInfo/jsonp.php

by **BKKKPewsey** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:21 pm

Hellscream: Tried your link and got the following:-

HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfil the request.

:cry:

by **Hellscream** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:05 pm

damn same shit here.
I think i need to reinstal PHP and apache and check again.
I have no clue what can be wrong

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