Music Recommendations

Music Recommendations

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Suggests similar artists based on the currently playing song.

Description

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.

Release Notes

  • Placeholder image for rare similar artists
  • Small CSS tweaks

Images (1)

  • Music-recommendations_thumbnail

Comments (33)

  1. 4 months ago
    GeekShadow GeekShadow

    Cool !

  2. 4 months ago
    smirky smirky

    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?)

  3. 4 months ago
    topdownjimmy topdownjimmy

    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!

  4. 4 months ago
    komi staff komi

    Nice!

  5. 4 months ago
    necimal author necimal

    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.

  6. 4 months ago
    vladak vladak

    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).

  7. 4 months ago
    necimal author necimal

    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.

  8. 4 months ago
    Slate8 Slate8

    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!

  9. 4 months ago
    neoproducciones neoproducciones

    Media Library integration will rock it!

  10. 4 months ago
    reDust reDust

    The only gripe I can come up with is that the "Powered by Audioscrobbler" image has some nasty artifacts.

  11. 4 months ago
    necimal author necimal

    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!

  12. 3 months ago
    alest alest

    Greate work!
    Could you please make text selectable? And it lacks scroll bar, vertical especially.

  13. 3 months ago
    necimal author necimal

    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 :)

  14. 2 months ago
    necimal author necimal

    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 =)

  15. about 1 month ago
    gabeforprez gabeforprez

    well now, how would i go about pointing you to a good 'powered by audioscrobbler' image?

    try this:
    tinypic.com/2luut8j.png

  16. about 1 month ago
    necimal author necimal

    Haha classic! Where on earth did you find that?

  17. about 1 month ago
    smirky smirky

    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!!

  18. about 1 month ago
    necimal author necimal

    @smirky: you read my mind! That is included in the new version I just uploaded, and I hadn't even read your comment!

  19. about 1 month ago
    gabeforprez gabeforprez

    :D I got very bored one night and made it in illustrator. enjoy

  20. about 1 month ago
    grampybone grampybone

    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.

  21. about 1 month ago
    Blaise Blaise

    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.

  22. about 1 month ago
    pankrusheff pankrusheff

    Jast added ru-RU translation on BabelZilla.

  23. about 1 month ago
    grampybone grampybone

    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.

  24. 29 days ago
    SonnyJim SonnyJim

    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

  25. 29 days ago
    allvoxman allvoxman

    COOL!!!

  26. 29 days ago
    washboardplayer washboardplayer

    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.

  27. 28 days ago
    nytel nytel

    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...

  28. 27 days ago
    Corwin Corwin

    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?

  29. 27 days ago
    Corwin Corwin

    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?

  30. 23 days ago
    newmario newmario

    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)

  31. 14 days ago
    MichaelMH MichaelMH

    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

  32. 6 days ago
    blutt blutt

    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

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Music Recommendations
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necimal
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