Concerts

This is an awesome add-on. I only have one complaint...

Songkick does not support Canadian concerts. Boo-urns!

@ashughes

Sorry we haven't got coverage of Canadian concerts yet, it's the next country we're going to focus on. I've never seen or been to Canada but some of the best gigs I've been to have been by Canadian bands. Neil Young, Final Fantasy and Wolf Parade were particuarly special. From your experience on the ground which Canadian ticket vendors should we focus on aggregating listings from? Thanks

No New Zealand :(

But really like the idea. Maybe you could pull some of the information from last.fm as they also have their upcoming gig engine.

This is fantastic!!! I have been wanting something like this for years. One suggestion, It would be fantastic if you could add more than one city and be able to see the results grouped in distance.

Keep up the good work!

Cool stevel !

Why not using Last.fm concert tool so it could be available in a lot more places in the world and with a result more close of the listener's taste ?

It only lists 16 states!
Why would the songkick website support all the US and the addon not?

Any chance we will be able to select multiple locations? I live halfway between NYC and Philly and would like to see concert listings for both as well as for NJ. As of now, I have to select one, then go into settings and change to the other.

Or at least let me pick Newark, NJ and have it display concerts from NYC as well. NJ transit stops 4 blocks from the Prudential Center in Newark, and two stops and 15 minutes later, it's under Madison Square Garden - but I can't get listings for both locations under the same setting, apparently.

That being said, I love the add-on and will be using it frequently. Please just add multiple city selection.

great idea, but really limited concerts. Tried it, and only got 1 concert. Would definitely help to be able to select multiple locations, range from a location and possibly add other sources to find more shows, but its a good start for now.

+1 vote New Zealand support!

Nah, I doubt you'll ever get here if you're working one country at a time!
I put my support behind also integrating with the Last.fm concerts API

When I try to disable this plugin (I'm from Sweden and have no real use of it) the word 'Concerts' still remain in the menu. The icon is gone and it happens nothing when I click it, but the word is still there. I've tried to uninstall the plugin as well, but with the same results. Just thought I'd let you know...

Does this plug-in use some kind of concert-finding interface within Songbird? I ask this question because I'm the webmaster of a local "underground" radio station near Sacramento and we have our own calendars of which local bands are playing where -- good bands that are typically far under the radar for concert ticketing sites. I'd like to develop a plug-in based on an open API that our own online music calendar uses, but would I have to duplicate this plug-in, ie could I access it's ticket column in the library view, or would I have to add yet another column?

It'd be nice if Songbird had a generic interface so we could develop many plug-ins to utilize many different concerting systems.

@Songbird excellent! That is great news. Songbird excites me with its commitment to non-propriety and openness in everything that it does.

ok, im able to see all the states now.

anyway to get a more intuitive button instead of the slash in the top right corner.

This is really awesome. Thanks to this plug-in, just found out about 3 upcoming concerts that I want to go to. Would there be any way to throw in an "Export to Google Calendar" link? Or maybe even turn it into an XML RSS I could add as a calendar?

It would be good if the plugin remembered my location so I didn't have to keep entering it. Also, the ability to change the loaction once the results have been displayed would be good, as there are several places I could go to concerts :-)

I like the output and the functionality is great.

Ah, OK, found the icon. Not the most obvious when right next to a hyperlink with the current location. Maybe it could be made more obvious somehow?

Also, when I searched initially it offered me the choice of "all" as none of the bands in my library were playing, but when trying a different location this wasn't offered and I was simply given all acts. Maybe the flag needs resetting for a new search?

I'll restart and see if it remembers, and if not I'll grab any errors. Do you want them pasted here or emailed direct?

Thanks for the prompt reply!

Nice work! This was working fine for me until about a week ago. When I enter in US, MN, I get no cities. On the website, I get "Twin Cities". In songbird when it was working, I got a choice of Minneapolis and St. Paul. What gives?

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maybe i'm just being very dumb, but once you bring up a screen of concert information, I can't figure out a way to go back to the original screen to search another city...I must clearly be missing something very simple here...right?

I live in holland at the moment and so would also like to see more european countries/cities listed, but although I'm sure this has all be said before, this is a dangerously good idea and one of the best I've seen on any application for a long time.

Mucos Kudos...can't wait for the next version!!

OK, i reported the bug to Songkick. They fixed it! Anybody in MPLS / St. Paul can get it it working again fairly easily now. Here's how they told me to fix it:

1) go to "about:config" in the URL
2) search for a key called "extensions.concerts.locations.lastupdated
3) right click on the value and select 'Modify' and change it to '0'
4) restart Songbird, wait a minute or so for it to reload the locationdata.xml in the background
-- when Songbird restarts it should forcibly reload the locationdata XML from Songkick's servers
5) try re-selecting the city

Hi,

very good add on, but I'm in Australia and I can't use it. Can we hope to see another places soon?

thx

@lelex

If you get a bunch of your friends to send them emails asking for AU support you'll be seeing Cut Copy and Van She in no time.

Brilliant add on but desperately needs to support other countries (Ireland¬(

Add Canada!!!!

can't you have something like this but from last.fm's concert list so that you can have a world-wide thing?

Add europa! France, england, germany, spain! And the others!!!!!!!

@razzark666, @lelex, @necimal, @karit, @ashughes

We just added concerts and tickets for New Zealand, Canada and Australia. Would love your feedback if you get a chance (which other vendors should we add, how it works for you etc):

feedback[at]songkickdotcom

We'll support more countries soon, thanks for your patience...

Is there any way I can force the addon to do an update on the concert listings?

I'd find this much more useful if you could include your whole state, or even better multiple cities.

I'm just repeating what others have said maybe, but this is a great add-on, only it should support shows aaall over the world. Perhaps if there was a piece of code that allowed you to fetch the concerts from the Last.fm concerts thingy on your profile. Or something else maybe (even better): it could fetch the tourdates for a specific band from the Last.fm band profile (the "on tour" thing), that should fairly widen the concerts location issue.

Please add germany!

+1 for multiple city support. Erie, Pa is close to cleveland, pittsburgh, and buffalo. I would like to see more than city if possible.

+1 for multiple city support. Erie, Pa is close to cleveland, pittsburgh, and buffalo. I would like to see more than city if possible.

I want support for more countries.

@stevel

@technomensch Go to about:config, and create a new boolean configuration variable called "extensions.concerts.showgcal" and set it to "true" You'll now see a little "Add to GCal" link next to each concert (in the listing page) which you can click (assuming you are signed into Google Calendar) to pop up a thing to add it to your Google Calendar.

Thanks, that's helpful in itself, but I'd really like to see all my available gigs in a new GCal calendar automaticly: ideally, once when they're announced, and then again when they happen. Is there any way to do that?

I know I can set the tour tracker up to use WMP to generate notifications, but it would be nice if I could do it all through songbird instead, rather than having to run a good mp3 player and a shite one too.

addition of Europe-concerts would be highly appreciated.

thank you!

@Michael K Vegfruit
I think would be require a full revamp of this extension and would require code modification in the backend. Perhaps if you can offer some "pseudo-code" suggestions to explain the process further, it might help the developer.

@stevel
I don't think I ever thanked you for the instructions for adding to Google Calendar. If I may make a suggestion, it may be a good idea to add this as an "Option" in future versions, rather than requiring to enable through the "about:config"

Excellent! Good layout, great concept. Initially, my first concern is that Concerts is based on a single city. For US, at least, it would be great if it could find events based on zip code + X mile radius or possibly multiple cities.

I know that it's been said, but integrating last.fm's events feature would be cool. Most of my artists don't show up in Songkick's database.

This would Definitely! be a 5-star add-on, even 5 if I could, but where's the support for Germany? :P

Since you asked which ticket vendors to ask for Canada, I guess I'd suggest eventim.de for Germany, I'm pretty sure they sell tickets for pretty much any event in Germany.

Hope you'll be able to get that done, you've got my best wishes;)

(If there should be any language issues I'd be happy to help btw ;) )

Great job no matter what though;)

well, as everyone, i am here to ask localization. For Italy. May I help in some way?
I mean, not i18n of addon, but auto-discover concerts in italy.

+1 pozdrav

5 stars!

but plz add other european countries like germany, netherlands, spain ....

Would it be possible to add ALL areas near you (or like a check-box, instead of a drop-down menu)?

Good idea but... please put France!!! Or Europe location ;)

I am using Songbird 1.1.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 using the deb from getdeb. I did a fresh install, and something is wrong with my concerts plugin.
In my error console there is one entry:
Error: SQLite compile step:
select count(*) from cities
caused the error
no such table: cities

I'm not able to pick my country, state, or city.

If you need more info let me know
Thanks

Love the addon.

I'd suggest eliminating artists like "Various" or "Various Artists", as these are rarely good concerts.

agreed this app is why i DLed songbird but i would like to see whats playing in my whole state (AZ)
however i also realize i can change the city whenever i want so thanks for making something so awesome !

come on man end Portugal....
you should consider this..

try to make a way where people can update near their location this add-on its god...

Europe!

(Like a lot of people) I'd totally positively freak out if this would work through last.fm's event's feature.Thanks for your work so far!

Pretty good application. If you can just add..way more cities that would be great.

agree with the above, excellent add on. would be even better if you could have multiple cities

Waiting this to land in Finland...

Great add-on, but I hope that Italy and all Europe could be integrated to Concerts soon! ;-)
Thanks!!!

is it possible to integrate concert's information from lastfm in this panel ?

+1 for the following ideas:

- being able to search by zip/postal code.
- having a mile/km radius
- selecting multiple cities
- last.fm integration

I'd also like to add one more:
- listing FREE concerts in your area.

I happen to travel frequently between several cities, including Toronto, Montreal, and New York. Being able to get concert listings for all three without switching locales constantly would totally rock.

And this is just a random example, but Deborah Cox and Divine Brown are amongst the artists performing live for free during Pride Week in Toronto. Esthero is one of the other artists performing free and she's already in my library. The plugin doesn't list any of them when switched to Toronto but it's nice to know concert info like this - especially if you're a music lover on a tight budget.

I have no idea how one would code something like this, but if it's possible without too much trouble I'd like to see it implemented in the future.

The Songkick website supports European countries like Austria and Germany as well. Could they be integrated in the addon? Would make it useful for European users...

I agree: why can't we just manually add additional zip codes that we want to track? I can't imagine that would be difficult at all to program...