My Music - need your thoughts on how to improve and enhance (2 Viewers)

[SteveV]

Hi guys -

I've been looking at the C# source for Banshee this morning and have stumbled across something that may be of interest.

The Audioscrobbler website offers a number of XML sources for obtaining information on similar artists in addition to top albums and track listings on a per artist basis.

To see the XML content replace {0} from any of the following URLs with an artist's name:

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/{0}/similar.xml
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/{0}/toptracks.xml
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/{0}/topalbums.xml

The following XML content is for The Beatles:

Similar artists...
Top tracks...
Top Albums...

It would be nice to see MP using content such as this to offer recommendations, smart playlists and more.

In addition to this little gem the Banshee project has some other pretty nice features and well written code, its a Mono based Linux project with dependencies on GLib so its not possible to compile it for Windows without some changes but is well worth a look.

The project also provides features for connecting to MusicBrainz, including a C# wrapper for the MB API, this coupled with the fact that the above XML feeds can contain the MusicBrainz ID offers great possibilities to make My Music very information rich.

Cheers,
Smirnuff.

Looks interesting. I'll look into this further when I catch up on a couple of other things that are in the works.

Thanks -- Steve

 

[GoldenEye]

SteveV

In addition to the many excellent ideas in this thread I would like to profit from the following features once in the future:

- An integraton of EvilLyrics which allows downloading of lyrics. There is a nice integration in Meedio which downloads lyrics but I'd even prefer a karaoke-stylish text presentation during songs.

- An integration of the abilities of MusicIP Mixer. This tools puts playlists together based on the content of a piece of music in combination with its metadata.

G.

 

[hwahrmann]

- An integraton of EvilLyrics which allows downloading of lyrics. There is a nice integration in Meedio which downloads lyrics but I'd even prefer a karaoke-stylish text presentation during songs.

Steve, when you read this. EvilLyrics has an API.
I have already a sample working.
Talk to you about that after my vacation.

 

[deebo]

i would like i a on-the-fly playlist, ie. when my friends browse my music they could add a song to the playlist that wouls play next; this is like the on-the-fly playlist support of iPod

 

[rtv]

when my friends browse my music they could add a song to the playlist that wouls play next;

Use your context menu! :wink:

 

[SpiffBB]

I allso would like some form of lyrics integrated!

 

[mrkeked]

a couple of new bugs

I think I found a couple of new bugs, not sure if they're already fixed in the patch:

1- When having only one song playing on the "current playlist" and using the "play next" feature on another song, it adds that song twice (I think this might be related to the previous bug I caught and you fixed). This only happens to the second song, the others that get added are fine.

2- Not really a bug, but if you click on Playlists, there's no clear way of getting back to the folder structure. You have to click Playlists again to get back to folders (sort of the "click start to shutdown" thing). I haven't tried this on the remote, so I'm not sure yet how the behavior is with it...

 

[prat]

I'm still fighting against the same bug:

Winamp: When i play songs in winamp without MP, everything works fine. But when configure winamp as external player in MP it decrease automatically the volume to 40%. Furthermore the cpu usage is toddle between 30 and 90%.

Foobar+ITunes+WMP9+10: CPU Usage is toddle between 30 and 90%. Everything works fine without Mediaportal.

I have that problem since several versions, presently the latest version is installed.

When i put Mediaportal in "Tray", the CPU Usage is stable at 5-10%. Now then the problem exists when Mediaportal is in Fullscreen or Window.

So i thought it could be a problem with the directx or my graphics-adapter. I've installed latest driver and directx9c again. Nothing changed.

I''ve uninstalled nearly all codecs and stuff, but the problem still exists.

My Configuration:
Nforce2 Mainboard with Realtek-Sound on Board (SPDIF Output)
AMD Sempron 3000+
512MB
Radeon 9550 ViVo
Windows XP Pro
MP 0.2.0.2

What can i do?

I cannot live with this problem, since we have 36 degrees in the summer of germany, and my htpc is getting hot with this high cpu usage.

Meedio, Gotallmedia and all the other HTPC-Frontends didn't have any problems with the cpu usage, but they are kinda ugly.

bye
prat

 

[ohdarklord]

Winamp: When i play songs in winamp without MP, everything works fine. But when configure winamp as external player in MP it decrease automatically the volume to 40%.

Ive got the same thing , it would be really nice to have it fixed.

 

[NorthernJohn]

Winamp: When i play songs in winamp without MP, everything works fine. But when configure winamp as external player in MP it decrease automatically the volume to 40%.

Ive got the same thing , it would be really nice to have it fixed.

Add me to the list as well.