Suggests similar artists based on the currently playing song.
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Music Recommendations searches for similar artists (powered by Last.fm), and provides links to these artists in your library.
Comments, feature requests, bug reports welcome :)
Translations also welcome (just post translated strings as comments below).
The source is on Google Code, feel free to use it or learn from it.
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- Placeholder image for rare similar artists
- Small CSS tweaks
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Cool !
awesome add-on! very simple and to the point... Thanks!
(the links seem to open in the current browser tab, maybe make an option for opening a new one as well?)
Look forward to trying this. Definitely expect to get some utility from it -- a simple and valuable idea. Can't wait for in-library recommendations. Thanks for your work!
Nice!
Merci
I will try and work on the library integration as soon as possible!
@smirky: I did that to follow the interface of other links in songbird (eg. the bookmarks in the left sidebar). I do intend to add middle/ctrl click support for opening in a new tab.. not sure if there is an easy way to do this or if I have to do it manually.
It'd nice to have more intelligent matching - e.g. not only band name but also album name (to prevent name collisions for bands with the same name).
Unfortunately, that's a caveat of Last.fm. I'm pretty sure they are working on separating artists with the same name, but it's not an easy task to automate. But for now, that's all the info that we can get from them.
Great addon! Would be cool if artists clicked would open the last.fm page in a new tab rather than the existing one, but minor detail... good work!
Media Library integration will rock it!
The only gripe I can come up with is that the "Powered by Audioscrobbler" image has some nasty artifacts.
Yeah, I need to dig around the last.fm site for a better one. That was the only one I came up with with a good colour scheme, so maybe I will have to edit one. If you do come across a good 'powered by audioscrobbler' image, i'd love to hear about it!
Greate work!
Could you please make text selectable? And it lacks scroll bar, vertical especially.
Sure, will try to do selectable text & a scroll bar in the next version, still trying to figure out how to select artists etc from the library. Hopefully have a new version in the next few weeks!
Thx for support :)
Ok, I managed a scroll bar, and made a 'powered by audioscrobbler' logo without horrible jpeg artifacts. Selectable text seems to be unnecessarily difficult.. Also, the library integration is underway, just wanted to get a version out compatible with Songbird 1.0 =)
well now, how would i go about pointing you to a good 'powered by audioscrobbler' image?
try this:
tinypic.com/2luut8j.png
Haha classic! Where on earth did you find that?
Just thinking aloud... it would be super cool if the name of the current artist playing (at the top of the sidebar) was a link to their Last.fm page ...
thanks again!!
@smirky: you read my mind! That is included in the new version I just uploaded, and I hadn't even read your comment!
:D I got very bored one night and made it in illustrator. enjoy
I like this, but I think it could be a lot better. I think that the ideal would be that it could function like the last.fm "similar artist" radio but feeding off of your library instead of last.fm - i.e., being able to find an artist (Radiohead for example) and instantly making a temporary playlist comprised of Radiohead and their (x) most similar artists. (Or perhaps instead of having a set number of similar artists, using whatever is at a given last.fm similarity rating)
If that was extended to last.fm's tags, this would be an unstoppable add-on. If I could pick a tag (post-punk, for example) and have the addon pull a list of artists in my library that have that tag and then make a playlist based on it, I would die.
I'd like to echo grampybone's comment about generating a playlist of similar artists.
It would make this plugin much stronger if as a user you could pick an artist that you like the sound of and have this plugin recommend a temporary playlist of similar artists.
I'd use it all the time.
Jast added ru-RU translation on BabelZilla.
Just some followup thoughts - the problem with having a big library sometimes is trying to find music to please other people who might be listening too. Last.fm is nice because I can tell someone to name a band/genre that they like and then not have to worry about having death metal or something pop up on my shuffled library and having to skip tracks until I find something we both like.
I am loving this add-on so much, it just speeds up making playlists!
What would be fantastic is if we could expand this add-on to include the actual creation of playlists (if at all possible), much like the current new toy in iTunes (you know the one I mean).
Wouldn't that be lovely? :D
COOL!!!
Very cool add-on although I currnelty have lyricsMaster in my left hand pane leaving nowhere for this add-on to go.
My I suggest that you offer alternative layouts that can use the middle pane as an option as well. I mocked up a few layouts myself to give you an idea of what I thought may be possible.
A version containing artist and suggestions
A lightweight version containing only similar artists
An alternate version with a column based design
I would also love to have the option to disable the web links as I generally only wish to search my own library, rather than redirect to the web.
Nonetheless, its a really clever little add-on that i hope more people will pay attention to.
I hate how this plugin has to go to the internet to retrieve this information before playing the damn song. Sometimes the internet does go right a way and it takes a few songs for the song to play. Ridiculous guys...
This looks really cook, but now that I installed it how do I make it work? Is there a man page anywhere? Is it broke on 64 bit Linux?
Ok, it works on 64bit Linux, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. Can't I make it work in a tab? Right now it overwrites the album navigation. Also I don't think it will work right for me as it can't figure out what track is playing as Songbird has no clue how to read a cue file. I think I'm just going to have to go back to xmms as it supports cue files correctly. Any chance for a xmms version of this plugin?
hi all !
how does this work ?, i have installed the plugin, but in the preferences i can click on the configuration button from "music recommendations" and also in the player i see nothing and no window or so pops up with similar artists ? also there is nothing overwritten on the lyrics tab....
i use ubuntu linux 32bit and the newest songbird (1.xx)
Hi, I think a nice addition would be having the ability to right click the artists names, then on the menu have "search for on SkreemR" and "search for on The Hype Machine"
and awesome program btw
newmario..
it works on ubuntu linux 32bit and the newest songbird (1.xx)
u just have to select the right display pane to make it visible
Nice work here btw