MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[hakko]

Hi! Most file systems have character limitations. I made it so that if you use an underscore character ( _ ) in a folder name, MusicCabinet will compare the folder name with the album artist / artist tag, and they'll be displayed instead if there's a close match. Like Crash_Conspiracy or D.A.F_

.. and I'm slowly working on a completely tagged based system to leave the 4.6 folder based handling behind, but that's quite a lot of work. It's gonna be so much better though!

[vollbr0t]

yep, the underscore does the job

thanks!

[mea]

hey hakko,

firstly, thanks for the incredible work you did with MusicCabinet.
I have a little problem. when I click on add last, sometimes, nothing happens.
enqueue seems to work correctly.
but both commands restarts the currently playing track. any idea how to fix this ? it's quite boring to have the playing track begining everytime you enqueue something :/

thanks !

[hakko]

Oh, that definitely sounds like a bug. I never experienced it so I'd need some help on reproducing it though, to figure what's going wrong. Does it happen for all players? Do you use jukebox mode? Does it happen no matter of browser? If you could somehow narrow it down and tell "it's happening when I do X, but not when I do Y", that would be helpful!

[calamitijo]

Hello,
the thing i like very much in the 4.7 beta is the speed of the interface and other.
did your mod is fast???

Thanks for your job

[hakko]

Oh well. MusicCabinet 0.5 is built on top of Subsonic 4.6 (with an extra layer of meta-data caching to speed things up). It's hard to give an exact measurement, as MusicCabinet also displays all albums of an artist in the same window, opposed to Subsonic where you have to browse around to each individual album.

Subsonic 4.7 introduced a new way of storing meta-data of files in a database to increase speed. I'm currently writing a similar (hopefully better) solution myself, so MusicCabinet 0.6 will be faster than 0.5/4.6 and less memory-intense.

I guess the only way to be sure is to try it out yourself (or ask somebody who's running it kindly for a guest account).

[cody_r_d]

I have been messing with this all weekend and I really love it. You have answered most of all my questions with this mod and made it more user friendly to find new bands and similar artists. Thanks for all your hard work on this.

Do you think you can make a "upload" link on the main bar like I have seen on the Mashup Mod of 2.7?


even made you a quick icon from your home icon if you wish to use it.

I also find it kind of annoying to have missing album art or artist art for bands that are not on Last.fm. Any plans to let us upload our own art for artists? Can we still use local cover art at some point?

Thanks again.
Cody

[hakko]

Hi and thanks for your feedback!

I don't think I'll add any new features until 0.6 is stable (which will be a while, until then I'll only do bug fixes of previous versions). But thanks for providing the image! Where would the upload link go? To the upload section of the "More" page? It's actually pretty easy if you want to add it yourself - just play around with top.jsp.

Local cover art for artists is a good idea as well. Would definitely be good to integrate into Subsonic/MusicCabinet. The best work-around right now would be either:
1) Edit the artist, and save a modified biography. (This will make sure the biography doesn't get overwritten with last.fm updates.) Dig around in the postgresql database and change the artist image URL.
2) Or even better, upload artist images to last.fm! That would be pretty interesting. There's some caching rules involved but you should get them back into your Subsonic within a couple of weeks. You could also dig into the database to force the download.

The only reason I made last.fm images take precedence over local artwork is that my internet connection is so slow. : ) I should have made it configurable though. That'll happen, sooner or later.

I pretty much agree with everything you say, it's just a matter of prioritizing. It's quicker to say "it should be like this!" than to actually write the code, make test cases etc...

[cody_r_d]

I totally understand and I am really excited to watch MusicCabinet grow. Thanks for taking my stuff inconsideration and I will see if I can add a windows popup from a link in the top.jsp like you suggested. My friends hate the upload process in the "more" button because you can not navigate while uploading. I remember there was a mod for this and wonder if it still works. Ill look into it.

Thanks

[cody_r_d]

Playing with this some more tonight and I seem to have some problems with cover art displaying. Not sure what is going on, but it simply does not show up. If I go to the "home" page and click on any of the links "Random" or "recently added" etc... it will show all the albums names but no art. But if I hit the "more" button it will pull the art down. I hope this makes some sense. Any ideas? I dont sem to have any error in my log file that I can tell.

Subsonic, original version 4.6. Built with MusicCabinet plugin, version 0.5.49, on June 24, 2012.

[hakko]

Yup, MusicCabinet stores image URLs for artists/albums (fetched from last.fm) in the postgresql database. When you browse an album, that URL takes precedence for cover art if present, otherwise, MusicCabinet falls back to using local cover art. Right now, last.fm seems to have some trouble though and is not returning images for the URLs that it previously provided.

I see exactly the same behavior when browsing http://last.fm right now. Maybe it's related to the big storms / power outages that happened recently to amazon and twitter? I hope they fix it on their side, otherwise, I'll have to do something about it. But it's not a bug in the software (this time) and I hope that last.fm fixes it themselves.

[hakko]

Oh, and since this is built on top of Subsonic 4.6, the issues about displaying cover art for certain browsers (i.e IE) remain, I haven't fixed that.

[pemholder]

When you browse an album, that URL takes precedence for cover art if present, otherwise, MusicCabinet falls back to using local cover art.

I just looked over this thread in order to make up my mind to switch to this mod.
There are a lot of features I would like to have.
But why do you not make it the other way round:
First look if cover-art is present in the tag and if not take cover art from outside?
It was a long work for me to get the correct cover-art (often there exist very different covers for the same album, depending on year, luxus version and so on) for my ripped albums.
When I looked for covers I often had to chosse among a lot of different covers.
I really don't want Subsonic together with Last.fm to overrule my decision.

To my opinion subsonic should always first take local tags (cover-art, lyrics ...). I admit that there are people who don't care much about their tags and have a lot of wrong tags. But that cannot be a reason to ignore those people who very deliberately edited their tags and ignore those tags complety by default. Maybe you can make this possible to configure that users can decide if local or online-information is used in these cases.

[hakko]

Yeah, I'll make it configurable when I've finished the tagged based version (0.6). I made last.fm the first priority mainly because of my slow internet connection and I didn't want to waste bandwidth supplying images to everyone, when last.fm provides them for free from a faster internet connection. Plus that the cover art code in Subsonic is a bit messy. But now when I'm rewriting it, I might as well do it properly and add configuration support. I'm pretty OCD about my tags as well and I'd like to favor people who are.

[precipitous]

Hi!

The "Service Unavailable" is most likely due to a conflict between Spring 2.5.6 (which Subsonic 4.6 is built on) and Spring 3.1 (which MusicCabinet is built on).

To get rid of that, I upgraded Subsonic to use Spring 3.1 as well. See the latter part of this long post for an explanation. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777#p42742

I asked crazyoldman to try it and he/she reported it to work well. I've been using it myself for a while without issues. Not sure about how well it works for mobile clients - user Ultraviolet reported an oddity that I haven't addressed yet.

So, shortly: try http://dilerium.se/musiccabinet/subsonic-beta.war (and rename to subsonic.war) but make sure to do a backup of your current settings beforehand - it upgrades the Subsonic password handling from using clear text passwords to salted hash sums, so there's no going back.

Java 7 is not required (yet). If you try the beta, please report further experiences in this thread!

@hakko: Thank you for the tip about Spring 3.1. You were right on the money and Music Cabinet is now up and running perfectly! I am really loving it...

Your default theme looks great too, but I would LOVE to have a dark version of it... Black with white text instead of white with black text. Do you have any plans to make such a theme?