MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[hakko]

Thanks. I appreciate that you take the time to go through the code (especially RESTController - it was ugly when I started porting it and it's not any better now) and give back to help everybody else. I'll include this together with your other fixes in the next release.

[odt]

Thanks for the wonderful last.fm integration - been a user on that site for 6 years and what you have done with MusicCabinet is much more of what I could possibly have imagined. It really has made me rediscover a lot of my music collection in the past day alone that I've been using it. So thanks again!

Also, one question/request - I have a huge amount of VA collections and often times I search for those albums by the name of an artist/track included there. Now after locating said album I would like to queue all tracks on it, not just the one track that is shown as the search result. Clicking the album name will not go to the full album but rather hide/show the one track on it. What can I do to have quick access to all tracks on this album, suggestions welcome.

[vshaulsk]

Hello.... Thank you for this great addition/mod of subsonic. It is exactly what I have been looking for ......

I do have a question on one function:

Under the home section you have TOP ARTISTS and RECOMMENDED. However even after a full scan + registering to last.fm I still do not see anything in those sections. Is this normal or did I set up the system incorrectly????

Thank you !!!

[hakko]

I have a huge amount of VA collections and often times I search for those albums by the name of an artist/track included there. Now after locating said album I would like to queue all tracks on it, not just the one track that is shown as the search result. Clicking the album name will not go to the full album but rather hide/show the one track on it. What can I do to have quick access to all tracks on this album, suggestions welcome.

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this mod! And thanks for posting that feedback, it's fun as a developer to hear that other people benefit from all those hours that I've spent.

I've noticed your problem a couple of times myself - I search for an artist, it displays tracks from VA albums, and I actually get interested in the full VA album to see who's more on it. I've been thinking of adding a simple arrow (forward link) after the album name or something like that, that takes you to the VA page with that full album being shown. If you have other ideas on how to achieve this, just post them here and I'll consider them.

[hakko]

I do have a question on one function:

Under the home section you have TOP ARTISTS and RECOMMENDED. However even after a full scan + registering to last.fm I still do not see anything in those sections. Is this normal or did I set up the system incorrectly????

Thanks for your positive feedback!

Have you configured Subsonic/MusicCabinet with your personal last.fm account? From Settings -> Personal.

It might also be that if your account is brand new, last.fm simply doesn't have any top artists for you yet, and no recommendations as they don't know what you listen to. The more songs you scrobble to last.fm, the more accurate recommendations are they able to give you, based on your taste in music.

If songs that you listen to in Subsonic/MusicCabinet appear on your last.fm profile (on the last.fm website), than everything's correctly set up.

[vshaulsk]

Thank you for the answer.... My account is brand new so that is probably what is going on. I do see that artists are being added to it as I listen so it must be working !!!!

I will just wait and see what happens over time

I do have a question on one function:

Under the home section you have TOP ARTISTS and RECOMMENDED. However even after a full scan + registering to last.fm I still do not see anything in those sections. Is this normal or did I set up the system incorrectly????

Thanks for your positive feedback!

Have you configured Subsonic/MusicCabinet with your personal last.fm account? From Settings -> Personal.

It might also be that if your account is brand new, last.fm simply doesn't have any top artists for you yet, and no recommendations as they don't know what you listen to. The more songs you scrobble to last.fm, the more accurate recommendations are they able to give you, based on your taste in music.

If songs that you listen to in Subsonic/MusicCabinet appear on your last.fm profile (on the last.fm website), than everything's correctly set up.

[torgull]

What I do wonder is: why do you use the file based mode in the left frame? This mod revolves around the last.fm integration but in file based mode, you get nothing out of that, just files and folders? The only reason I built it was to give people something to listen to while they scan their library for the first time. And so that people can access their movies, and newly added albums immediately. I never meant it to be a full-blown, real alternative.

I understand adding a whole directory to a music player like Foobar that is built around a super efficient playlist window which handles thousands of songs. But the Subsonic UI doesn't really work like that. Having a "Play all" button for your root media folder wouldn't behave very well in the web interface, I'm afraid. If you use the tag based interface, you get "Play all" for artists and albums at least?

I had a problem with single tracks in 1 folder. i use that for making cases with the best nr's of a genre. its easier when dj'ing to have a folder with single tracks then scrolling all folder in my music warehouse (800gb). i fixed that by tagging all single tracks and give them albumartist tag VA. now it does show up in file tree as 1 folder and i can push the play all button.

can music cabinet read multiple genres? i have started with checking all tags in my warehouse with mp3tag and discogs as database. i want to use the STYLE tag from discogs as genre. its more specific. I can use the , as separator or add multiple genre fields in the tag.. what is the best solution for multiple genres?

[torgull]

I have a huge amount of VA collections and often times I search for those albums by the name of an artist/track included there. Now after locating said album I would like to queue all tracks on it, not just the one track that is shown as the search result. Clicking the album name will not go to the full album but rather hide/show the one track on it. What can I do to have quick access to all tracks on this album, suggestions welcome.

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this mod! And thanks for posting that feedback, it's fun as a developer to hear that other people benefit from all those hours that I've spent.

I've noticed your problem a couple of times myself - I search for an artist, it displays tracks from VA albums, and I actually get interested in the full VA album to see who's more on it. I've been thinking of adding a simple arrow (forward link) after the album name or something like that, that takes you to the VA page with that full album being shown. If you have other ideas on how to achieve this, just post them here and I'll consider them.

a simple arrow would be great and solve the problem i'm encountering a lot as well

[hakko]

MusicCabinet is built on tags, not directories, so if you need to create your own "best of" collections album, i'd suggest:

- copy those tracks into a separate directory (for simplicity)
- change album artist + album name to Various Artists, Country Hits 2012 or whatever for all files. leave the artist + track title as it is
- scan and it should appear in the left frame, as Various Artists. when you click the artist link, your new Country Hits 2012 album should appear

Tags are currently organized per artist, not per track, and fetched from last.fm. Tags are associated with an artist together with a weight indicator, so an artist can be 100% disco and 70% pop. There's currently no interface for changing neither artist genres nor weight (only people with database skills can do that) but it's on my "when time permits" list.

ID3 tags are read when scanning your library, but there's no support for multiple genres (it's not supported in official specs) and they're not even used anywhere, yet. They're just saved for future use (they will come in handy sooner or later).

But for now, you'd have to find somebody with a bit of programming skills to read discogs style tags into the artist tag system rather than using last.fm.

[GJ51]

I've just started getting into testing Music Cabinet on my servers. I like it so far but would like to know if it is possible to edit or get a theme that uses the Black theme but with Cyan lettering for the foreground color.

Thanks for the mod.

Where's your "Donate" button?

A friend of mine loves the mod and wants to donate.

[hakko]

I'm glad you like it!

In general, I tend to stay away from front end design (I know my limits). So to get a new theme, you'd have to jump into the html sources yourself. It's not super complicated though - look in jetty\0.7.10\webapp\icons\ and jetty\0.7.10\webapp\WEB-INF\classes\net\sourceforge\subsonic\theme\. The best thing would be to make a completely new scheme based on the black one, but just edit foreground colors and also edit all the top row images using Gimp/Photoshop etc. If you make it look good, I'll be glad to include it in future releases.

I don't have a donate button - currently, I'm reasoning that I lack spare time, not money. I'd be happy if your friend wanted to donate any amount of money to charity instead, there are less fortunate people and animals who need it more than me. It would motivate me to hear that some NGO benefited from this job that I mainly do for fun.

[maxxh]

I have another experimental change: Updated JW Player JavaScript API from v4 to v5 (in WebPlayer).
It uses JW Player 5.10 and the JW Embedder instead of the old/deprecated SWFObject method.
This enables JW Player to use HTML5 for audio playback.

Unfortunately i am not happy with the HTML5 playback, so the default is still Flash.
Here is a diff: http://pastie.org/private/vk6pbgcpydjmn58ycqaoiq
Note: this change only affects audio playback, as i am not interested in the video part of subsonic.

I also tested JW Player 6 Beta 2. The HTML5 player seems to be more reliable. Another useful thing in v6 is the type=<mp3|aac|vorbis...> parameter (which enabled vorbis playback, although it doesn't work very good).
The reason i would stay with v5: the default v6 skin would need some changes (horizontal volume slider instead of a non-working vertical one, color changes to fit into the theme), and the player has to be initialized with a proper media file on setup (either load a random mp3 file or ship a dummy one).

[hakko]

Thanks! Do you happen to have a Github account? You could then push updates to this project, as I think you're contributing valuable input. I've added your previous fixes to the code base, but not published them yet.

[CasN]

Hakko,

How can I uninstall your mod?
Would that be a question of simply re-installing Subsonic itself (tried that but that did not work properly, could not login anymore)?
Reason is that most people that use my site are not yet ready to fully tagged oriented working and hence prefer directory structure.
They do like other features such as related artist etcetera but for now, I prefer to revert.
Thanks in advance.

[hakko]

Hi! Before running the Subsonic 4.7 installer, you have to replace C:\Subsonic (or equiv) with the back-up you made before installing MusicCabinet.

The reason is that Subsonic 4.7 stores the passwords of all your users in clear text, while MusicCabinet stores them as salted hash sums (to make it harder for an intruder to steal them and try using them at other internet services).