Similar Artists Javascript Widget Mod

[Minime]

I have finally had a bit of spare time and first updated to SS 4.5 and everything went smooth - love the way it retained all my existing settings. Love the sharing feature as well. Then redone a couple of my existing mods - and to top it up added your mod. Glad to report that all is running like a charm. Subsonic just keeps on getting better and better. Thank you very much mqchen for this awesome mod.

[dcuellar]

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Installed on my own server. Everything works fine. Thank you for the great add-on!!

[osnet]

/signed
this is a great addon.
works fine w/o any troubles

but how to implement it like 3r3 has shown it ?

EDIT:
mmh this .js stuff is kinda wierd ...
as known from other prog-languages i tried all possibilities to show the similar-artist list directly under the users "nowplaying" stuff matching the artist.name ..
no way ...

in the end i wanted to put the open/close trigger right after the lyrics link. the matching sim.art. list should expand under it ...
til now i'm stuck with it. maybe there will be any solution anytime later.

[BKKKPewsey]

I think I have discovered a small "buglet" which I think can be easily solved by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of php (which I aint got )
It would appear to get very confused if you have multiple artists in your id tags, I was playing an album by Steve Roach/Stephen Kent and it came back as 柯宗佑 as the artist
However Steve Roach on his own is reported correctly. Is there a way to alter the server code to only send the artist name up to the ID tag separator "/" to musicBrainz ?

[osnet]

this cuts lalala.jpg to lalala

Code: Select all

<?
$filename = 'lalala.jpg';
$extension = substr(strrchr($filename, "."), 1);
?>


the same could be used in your case

[mqchen]

I think I have discovered a small "buglet" which I think can be easily solved by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of php (which I aint got )
It would appear to get very confused if you have multiple artists in your id tags, I was playing an album by Steve Roach/Stephen Kent and it came back as 柯宗佑 as the artist
However Steve Roach on his own is reported correctly. Is there a way to alter the server code to only send the artist name up to the ID tag separator "/" to musicBrainz ?

Wow, that is a strange one...

Anyway, I have added support for this case now.

To get latest update:

• If you are using my PHP server (the default), then you don't have to do anything. Your widget should already support similar artists for multiple-artist-songs.
• If you have set up your own PHP server, just grab the latest from the repository. The only files that have been changed are "jsonp.php" and "Net/ArtistInfo.php".

How it works.
It splits the artist name by ", / &" (ignores the special case where artist names are "Beatles, The", which it treats correctly as "The Beatles" instead of "Beatles" and "The" - which is actually a band).

For example, if you are playing a song by "Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder" it will fetch the similar artists for both of them individually. Then the lists are merged and sorted so that the artists who are common for both comes higher up (their similarity rating is summed). In this case it suggests: "Paul McCartney & Wings","Wings","George Harrison","Ringo Starr","The Beatles", etc.

[osnet]

hmm and what about bands that NEED the slash ?

for example De/Vision -> http://www.devision-music.de/index.php? ... navobj=0,1

[mqchen]

I didn't consider any bands with those characters in their names, but I have added a special case for that. It now checks the given name to see if it gives a match with a name that is 65% similar, then it doesn't consider it as multiple artists.

If you are running your own PHP server just get the latest commit from the repository: https://github.com/mqchen/SimilarArtist ... r-Subsonic
Otherwise, you don't have to do anything.

However, I did notice a bug, and it is something which unfortunately is quite difficult to work with. If you are playing a song by "Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum", Subsonic shows it up as "Clint Eastwood, Jamie..." to save place. This widget then splits it up to "Clint Eastwood" and "Jamie...", and "Jamie..." apparently returns "薛忠銘" from MusicBrainz. I'll see if I can find a solution to this.

[BKKKPewsey]

Excellent that works a treat Thank You
I was still on Chapter 2 of PHP for Dummies when you posted this

Now if you can explain why the band Queen gets such strange results that will really make my day

eg Queen on their own



and showing the new mod in action



has MusicBrainz got something against Queen

[mqchen]

Wow, that's weird as well. If you search for Queen using MusicBrainz's API that Japanese band actually comes first: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/artist/?type=xml&name=Queen

But I think I might have an idea on how to by-pass problems like this...

[mqchen]

Ok, I have found the problem. Seems MusicBrainz gives some weird results (as you have notices) when using v1 of their API. I have updated the widget to use v2 which seems to solve some of the weird matches.

If you are running your own PHP server, just grab the latest from the repo: https://github.com/mqchen/SimilarArtist ... r-Subsonic
Only Server/Music/ArtistInfo.php has been updated.

If you are using the default server it has already been updated.

[BKKKPewsey]

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EDIT: I just noticed that Last FM thinks that Pink Floyd are similar to Queen
Some of the Last FM users must be smokin' something stronger then Marlboro

[mqchen]

Ok, one last update now: https://github.com/mqchen/SimilarArtist ... r-Subsonic
Only updated Server/Music/ArtistInfo.php for those of you who are running your own PHP server. For the rest; you don't need to do anything.

• I have added support to check that names aren't too different from the name you are search with. This should also help prevent additional false hits.
• Bug fixes which may have caused the multiple artist to malfunction slightly. Now fixed.

[califrag]

Not sure if I did something wrong....

I'm using subsonic standalone 4.5

I followed the instructions on the github:
added the Client\scripts.js info and copied the 'similar_artists' folder into my 'script' folder, but nothing is showing up...

Would like to get this working :[

[BKKKPewsey]

No 1 rule DON'T use IE9 it doesnt work in that browser.