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Wayne replied on November 15, 2008 02:27 to the idea "Share Library between multiple PC's (and OS's)" in Songbird:
When you say a public MySQL server, do you mean something along the lines of a "library.songbirdnest.com" which various installs of Songbird could login to?
That's pretty interesting.
I was thinking of a way to get around that sort of problem as well. I was thinking that different Songbirds could talk amongst themselves and keep their libraries in sync.
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
Your method might be a little easier to pull off.-
Wayne replied on November 15, 2008 02:07 to the question "Scan for media using a samba connection not working" in Songbird:
And just to confirm, the situation is the same in RC2. -
Wayne started following the idea "Share Library between multiple PC's (and OS's)" in Songbird.
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Wayne replied on November 14, 2008 03:43 to the question "Scan for media using a samba connection not working" in Songbird:
Oops, it was not the nightly, just the rc1. -
Wayne started following the question "Music Server plugin??" in Songbird.
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Wayne replied on November 14, 2008 02:46 to the question "Scan for media using a samba connection not working" in Songbird:
Just downloaded the 1.0 rc nightly on to Ubuntu 8.10. Tried to import from smb://192.168.0.100/music/ by typing in the address.
The error message I get is: Error stating file '/home/wayne/Desktop/Songbird/smb:/192.168.0.100': No such file or directory
Also of interest (and I don't know the proper terms to say this better) is that once I open the network share through Network or "Connect to Server" under the Places menu, "music on 192.168.0.100" appears under the Places menu itself. But that entry will not show up under the Import Media window.
With Rhythmbox when going through Music -> Import Folder then on the next window "music on 192.168.0.100" shows up under Places and I can import files over the SMB share.
Let me know if I'm doing anything wrong or if you'd like me to test anything. -
Wayne started following the question "Scan for media using a samba connection not working" in Songbird.
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Wayne started following the idea "Make "track number" filter title just "#" / shorten to "#" (picture)" in Songbird.
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Wayne replied on October 25, 2008 14:45 to the question "Why can't bears fly? There's my great title, but it has nothing to do with my silly problem." in Songbird:
Once you login click on the "You" at the top of the screen. It'll give you a timeline of everything you've been involved with and the replys. -
Wayne replied on October 25, 2008 14:33 to the idea "Like Itunes' Genius Feature" in Songbird:
Another option along the same lines: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t... -
Wayne started following the idea "Really smart playlists via Mirage/Songbird" in Songbird.
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Wayne replied on October 25, 2008 14:26 to the idea "allow rating of artists, not just tracks" in Songbird:
Hi Zac, what's the ultimate goal behind this?
It's an interesting idea, but I'm trying to understand how it would be used?
Is it a way of setting ratings of tracks from that artist? -
Wayne replied on October 21, 2008 02:22 to the idea "Automated rating add-on based on chart position." in Songbird:
I'm an idiot!
XBMC uses http://www.allmusicguide.com/ for their album art lookup's and for album reviews. And they give ratings in 1 to 5 stars. Which would be perfect for this.
What I can't tell is if there's an API to interface with the site or if the info is pulled by a "screen scrape" of sorts.
Still tho, the source for the project is available, perhaps that can help.
It's not exactly taking the collective listening preferences of the world into count, but it is at least letting you set an intelligent baseline for your initial ratings. -
Wayne replied on October 19, 2008 17:27 to the idea "Syncing Songbird with Songbird" in Songbird:
Heh, I actually did my best to keep it short, unlike some of my other efforts: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t... -
Wayne shared an idea in Songbird on October 12, 2008 05:28:
Syncing Songbird with SongbirdThe What:
What I'm suggesting is that Songbird have a way to communicate between multiple versions of itself to sync both songs and meta data.
Using myself as an example, I have a file server in my basement with 100 Gig's of MP3's on it. My laptop has significantly less storage then that. In fact I don't keep any songs on my laptop, Rhythmbox reads the MP3's straight off the server. Which works as long as I'm on my home network, but I'm screwed out of the house. Plus I have another machine hooked up to the stereo and (for now) the ratings/play count/etc are separate and a chore to try and keep sync'ed.
How I picture this working (once again from my example) is that either the file server or the stereo machine would run a copy of Songbird which would act as the "master" then my laptop could connect to the master similar to how you connect to a shared library but with the ability copy songs locally and update the stats as necessary.
The Why (for people other then just me):
People's music libraries are growing ever larger just at the same time as ultra portable laptops are becoming more and more popular. What this generally means is that people are often left with far more music then they can (currently) carry around with them.
Usually another computer will act as a main store and the laptop will only have a copy of a portion of that. Which leads to multiple libraries with separate meta data stats like play counts and song ratings.
This is obviously parallel to iTunes as the main store and the iPod as the portable. (Or Songbird and the DAP of your choice.) Which has been working pretty well for a few years now. However the rise of the ultra portable introduces a new class of "DAP" to the mix which has the power of the full client, just not the storage.
Think of it as Songbird needing a Nest to go home to. -
Wayne replied on October 12, 2008 02:07 to the idea "Smart Party Shuffle?" in Songbird:
Just wanted to update this a little bit with a look at how Mozilla are adding in location services.
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/intro...
Might make it easier for something like this to be implemented. -
Wayne started following the idea "Can Songbird have check boxes on playlists, like iTunes has?" in Songbird.
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Wayne started following the idea "Playlist style device syncing for small capacity devices." in Songbird.
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A comment on the question "Integration of Songbird API into Blogspot" in Songbird:
After 1.0 ships, you might want to consider putting out a set of "official" plugins for all of the popular publishing platforms (WordPress, Joomla, Drupla, etc..) to ease integration. Something that people can trust to be updated in a timely matter with any changes to Songbird. – Wayne, on September 09, 2008 03:48 -
Wayne started following the idea "Support of the Mac remote control." in Songbird.
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