MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[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?

[hakko]

That's good news! I'm glad to hear it's working well.

I'm really not an artist (a friend of mine made the good-looking radio / genre cloud icons) so I don't plan on creating a black theme myself. However, it shouldn't be too hard if you're familiar with Gimp etc to create inverted icons out of the ones supplied? If anybody would like to extend the existing themes ("Back in black", "Monochrome black" etc) and sent me the missing icons, I'd be happy to bundle them to make the theme complete.

[hakko]

Last.fm artwork looks good again for me. But you might have to clear your cache in case your browser stored a certain image URL as "not accessible".

[cody_r_d]

Hakko,
just wondering...
On the "Related artists" page and on the bottom it shows "You might also like", is there a way to get them to open in a new window/tab instead in subsonics main frame? Or is there a reason for this? Is there plans to let the user/admin set how many "Related artists" & "You might also like" are shown? I would love to see more if possible. This is by far my favorite feature is the ability to see related artists not in my database. thanks again for all your work on this.

[hakko]

People browse sites in different ways. Some browsers don't have the concept of "windows" and "tabs", others just prefer to stay in the same window. I think 'same window' is the best default option as the people who prefer "new window/tab" can click the link with their middle button/scroll wheel, ctrl+click on windows, cmd+click on a mac etc, add a plugin that open links for new domains in new tabs etc. I think it would be more fun if the link itself was configurable, so that people could choose to read about new bands at last.fm, allmusic, wikipedia, end up at their favorite bittorrent tracker etc. If I do that, I'll add new window/same window as an option too.

It's a common feature request to control the number of returned results and number of rows/columns so I guess I'll make that configurable too at some point.

I'm not sure about data quality though - obviously, if you asked for 50 related artists, the bottom one wouldn't be as good as the first one suggested.

[calamitijo]

after install, i had this :

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i dont know.....

[hakko]

Hmm, never saw that before. I need some more information though to fix it. Could you upload C:\Program Files\Subsonic\log\subsonic-service.log (or the equivalent if you're on another platform) somewhere, like Dropbox or pastebin.com? Did you download subsonic.war or subsonic-beta.war? What exactly did you do? I'm not a wizard so I need more details to understand what's happening. Thanks!

[precipitous]

That's good news! I'm glad to hear it's working well.

I'm really not an artist (a friend of mine made the good-looking radio / genre cloud icons) so I don't plan on creating a black theme myself. However, it shouldn't be too hard if you're familiar with Gimp etc to create inverted icons out of the ones supplied? If anybody would like to extend the existing themes ("Back in black", "Monochrome black" etc) and sent me the missing icons, I'd be happy to bundle them to make the theme complete.

I created a Sonic (Black) theme that I think is going to look pretty good. Unfortunately I can't get it to show up in the list of available themes in Subsonic. Is there anything else that needs to be done to make it available besides adding a listing for it in the ...Web-INF/classes/net/sourceforge/subsonic/theme/theme/themes.txt file?

After creating all of the files and icons whenever I restart the Subsonic server I am am unable to connect to it the first time I try. If I re-load the web page I am then able to connect OK. Does this mean that there is an error in one of my theme files and it is getting blocked after the first time I try to access the log-in page?

[hakko]

Oh yes, a contributor!

I played around myself now to create a Sonic (Pink) theme. This is what I did:

1. stop the Subsonic service
2. in jetty/<version.number>/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/net/sourceforge/subsonic/theme, alter themes.txt and create sonic_pink.properties
3. in jetty/<version.number>/webapp/style, create sonic_pink.css
4. in jetty/<version.number>/webapp/icons, create sonic_pink (directory)
5. start the Subsonic service

It actually worked and came out all pink (after editing the properties files and the css file)

Can you check for a file called subsonic-service.log and see if it gives any hints on something that went wrong? sounds related to the theme-making if it started happening just now. If you don't want to bang your head against the wall, I could try and put the files together as a theme if you'd prefer that.