MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[roever]

Hi, started using subsonic a couple of months ago and just started to look into the different mods to it.

I am really interested in trying MusicCabinet but have no idea how to setup on my debian subsonic server.

I installed subsonic with the official deb package.

When i am looking on http://dilerium.se/musiccabinet/#installation it gives me the options to download either a windows installer or a standalone version.

How do i implement MusicCabinet on my debian system?

[hakko]

The standalone version contains two .jar files and a .sh script to start it all. The easiest way to try it would be installing Postgresql 9.1 or 9.2 using your package manager, and Java 7 (normally it's a good idea to uninstall Java 6 before, unless you really need it). Make sure java is on your path, unzip the standalone .zip file somewhere, and run the .sh script. Oh, and make sure to do a backup in case you want to revert back. It shouldn't be much more complicated than that, just for trying it out.

There's no debian installer that registers the .sh script as a daemon service, you have to take care of that yourself.

[totoclectic]

Great mod ! Just one question : how can I change the language of the artist biography ?

Thanks you !

[hakko]

Language defaults to English and there's no option to change that right now, sadly (without altering the source code).

It's one of many things on my TODO list: https://github.com/hakko/musiccabinet/issues/12

[hakko]

First of all, thanks for the great mod hakko. Been using it for 2 weeks and it is simply awesome.

I'm wondering if there will be a "custom" version of the android client to support artist/genre radio, since it is currently a pain using it for this purpose.
What I am currently doing as a workaround, is going to the normal interface with the mobile browser, creating a radio station, saving the playlist, and then opening said playlist from the android client. As you imagine, this gets old really fast.

Not a huge issue, but it would be great to have the functionality Music Cabinet provides on the go.

This post made me sit down today and integrate the MusicCabinet features into mobile clients, see viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777&p=46929#p46929

At least on my iSub, I can now browse artists by genre, use the related artists feature, play genre radio and artist radio. Let me know if it doesn't work on the Android client.

edit: GJ51 kindly tested and reports that Android seems to work, too.

[Alsaya]

Hello Hakko,

I installed it today and I'm really impressed with the amount of additional information I get with the addition of last.fm.
Now my, hopefully, single problem, related to 4.7, too.
Till now I have this structure
Folder Adams, Bryan below
1983 - Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
and in the ID3 tags for interpret Bryan Adams
Subsonic sorted my folders and I got a sorting like Adams, Bryan - now it's not longer sorted in A but in B for Bryan.
I could now change all my ID3 Tags to Name, First Name and Cabinet will sort the artists correctly - but I won't get anymore lyrics for Adams, Bryan.
Do you know a workaround?

Thank you

Alsaya

[hakko]

Hi! My mod behaves quite differently from 4.7, as it is not folder based at all. You could actually put every single song into a folder of its own, and they would still get grouped solely based on album artist/artist/album tags. So the names of folders are not taken into account for sorting (to the some people's annoyance).

Now, what I believe would be a correct solution to this situation is to use the Sort Artist tag (TSOA/TSOP in ID3 v2.3). It is there to indicate that you want your artists grouped in one way (like "Lennon, John") but displayed in another ("John Lennon"). The bad news here is that I've haven't finished that part of the project yet. MusicCabinet reads your Sort Artist tags and stores them in the database, but it doesn't use them for grouping your artists (yet).

That leaves us with a situation where we have to find some kind of work-around. The only thing I can think of is to use the Album Artist tag (TPE2) and set that to Adams, Bryan while leaving the artist tag as Bryan Adams. That would have it indexed as A in the left frame but displayed as B, but it would also have some bad side effects like not getting the proper artist biography, related artists etc. I don't know if all these side effects are worth having it sorted into the right index letter.

I think that the only good solution is to implement full support for Sort Artist tag in MusicCabinet. It is something I've meant to do but haven't finished and I can't really tell when I'll have time to do it. That's the situation right now. Maybe not exactly what you were hoping for.

[alphawave7]

All future topics and replies should now be directed to the new MusicCabinet forum:
viewforum.php?f=11