mashTape

Brilliant! This really shows what Songbird is capable of!

hello :) Here is a localized version of this new smart extension of yours. http://goofy37.perso.cegetel.net/extensions/mashTape_locale_support.xpi See my comment for Birdhouse Bookclub - Goofy BabelZilla Team

Mmh I think you should have taken advantage of the proposed localized version to update. It looks like you did not see the interest of internationalizing your extension :( Nevermind. Next time maybe.

They should embed this into songbird. It's pretty sweet.

@flaremaster, no they shouldn't I think it should be optional through an addon. (this is where addons are for)

stevel can you tell me if there is an option to make the bottom bar (tags/lyrics tab) transparent?

Very promising! Keep up the good work.

@stevel Mmh yes I should have done some GoofyMistake (TM) when trying to localize strings in the js file too. Sorry. Now I have made this version based on your last online release here. It works fine on my system. http://goofy37.perso.cegetel.net/extensions/mashTape-0.0.2-localized_ok.xpi Note that I left aside some messages from the .js file that shoud be translatable one of these days (when I have more time left)

sweet

@stievel You are right, strings of the js seem reluctant to localization. I have tested in vain the two main tricks I generally use generally to localize js strings (and that I used successfully with more than 140 extensions* for Firefox or Thunderbird). So I am a bit puzzled. Maybe the very peculiarity of Songbird (bieng xulrunner propelled) makes unefficient certain function calls that are not recognized by this app. I don't know, I only localized 3 extensions for Songbird up to now. As I am no coder but just a localizer knowing some tricks, I will ask to dev friends what they feel about this. I will let you know. On the other hand, I am interested in knowing from you about that if you find any hint. You can mail me goofyFr@gmail.com - jean-bernard aka Goofy * here is where I usually report adding locale support for extensions http://www.babelzilla.org/forum/index.php?showforum=70

Here are some good news :) With the kind help of my friend Davide Ficano who is a developer for Firefox extensions, I understood the error I made (I am goofy after all). It seems I inserted the stringbundle at the top of the file (as I usually do) but it was probably interferring with your first clause at this place (I suppose). So putting it on 2nd position seems to make it. This version http://goofy37.perso.cegetel.net/extensions/mashTape_more_loc.xpi is working fine on my pc with these strings from the .js now localized: - "see other" "songs" - Updating... - Error retrieving tags - Attempting to update lyrics from metrolyrics.com.... - Unable to find lyrics on metrolyrics.com Tell me if some other strings need to be done as well, I am not sure I spotted every one. - Goofy

Thanks for your concern about other languages. If you wish to have more languages available, hop on http://www.babelzilla.org

I just downloaded it with the newest release, 0.3.1, and Songbird is telling me that it is incompatible. Any help for this? This addon sounds awesome, so I would love to get my hands on it!

Pretty awesome, turbo-charged add-on. Love it! Though I was looking at the lyrics function and a lot of the songs I was listening to came up with different lyrics.... particularly on songs with common names, little-known bands and mash-ups. It'd be nice to have a check box or something to click when the lyrics don't match up with the track.

real nice add on but I have a widescreen so it would be nice if the ad don could be shown in a sidebar because there I've got much more free space to display things.

nice good to know Know I'm waiting for songbird 0.4 ;)

Love this add-on, but despite the changelog saying 0.1.0 is compatible with 0.3.*, Songbird can't install it because it's not compatible with 0.3.1

Hooray, thanks!

Hey, this is an awesome extension.

One feature suggestion I have is the ability to modify the lyrics suggestions it gives you from metrolyrics and save them to your hard drive…

For example, I like to format the lyrics I listen to in a particular way, and it would be cool if I could edit the ones suggested by metro lyrics to my own personal style, save it to my comp and have mashTape automatically load my saved one instead of checking metrolyrics first.

Also, the lyrics box has “Next Match”, hbut I can’t find “Previous Match”?? As far as I can tell you have to start the song again to get the first match back ^^.

I’m not sure but I think I found a bug, with mashTapeis enabled songbird captures 100% of CPU usage, maybe a endless loop.
Please fix it, because a live without mashTape is impossible ^^.

Thanks.

Is it possible to show the images with a proportional size?

I’m having problems with images that are resized incorrectly when I make SonBird panel/window bigger.

I think I found a (little) bug. Actually, in the “Artist Bio” tab, the “read more about the artist” button is enabled only if there is nothing more to read about the artist. It must be a problem in a “if statement”.

Otherwise, this is a great extension.

I have the same problem. It works fine until I click on the Youtube tab and then, i have 99% CPU usage. There must be a bug.

Another thing, it would be great to add a link to the youtube video page. Indeed, it’s quite difficult to watch video directly in mashTape (the video is really tiny) and it would be a good idea to add a link to open the video in a new tab.

This problem has disappeared since I have restarted Songbird. That’s weird but it works properly.

I still have the problem of CPU usage I mentioned before.

A feature suggestion: “Hide when not playing.”

When I examine the properties of an Mp3 in windows explorer (where it lists Artist, track number, year, etc) it also has a a property for ‘Lyrics"… Maybe once songbird supports modifying (and saving) the ID3 tags (or whatever they’re called) you could save the lyrics that way..?

:)

Is there a way to have mashTape only appear in the library? (and have it automatically disappear when I use the broswer for example).

Please and thank you,

Is it possible to change the order of the tabs so that Artist Bio comes up automatically by default instead of the pictures?

thanks Steve, keep up the good work.

How about having the content pane open when clicking on the title/artist/scrubbar UI element on top on when clicking a right-click item in the library window? Also I agree with CozaMcCoza about the tab order. Would it be possible to show the complete info in the Artist Bio tab (assuming the last.fm API allows so)? An album tab for info on the currently playing album would be great. Finally, how about some other sources? All music guide would be great (if technically feasible)

yes… i agree…
best… addon… ever….

particularly fond of the lyrics function..

Yeah the lyrics are reaaaally nice. If we had options for other lyric sites, that’d be cool too.

You should grab Zvents event feeds, they’re more comprehensive.

I’m having trouble getting this to work with version 0.5. I’ve tried disabling all my other addons and feathers in the hope it was one of these faults but it hasn’t worked.

It just doesn’t show up and I can’t find an option to make it appear (maybe a pane in the View menu or something)?

I’ve looked in all of the panes and it says Either “None” or “Get more extensions” At which point it sends me to the add-ons page.

I’ve tried uninstalling Mashtape and re-installing it but doesn’t seem to be working :–(

Hello ,
That’s an amazing extension for SongBird , I already replaced my amarok with songbird . So cool .

One small thing maybe , the photos and events part , could you make the photos pass smoothly instead of shifting ? That would create a more elegant view .
Also arrows make the photos go too fast and instantenous . that could’ve been improved .

Other than that ,
perfect !

Hello,

This is amazing add on, like a information centre, very nice.

I like the feature of lyric most. However, I don’t why it didn’t work from yesterday. The lyric window can’t show the lyric but the word “undefined” or a large amount of context which is not understandable, such as “
Player

[Player]”.

Hope this can help you solve the bugs.

Thanks

Yes this is 0.5 final. Songbird notified me to update when it was released and I’m using Vista Ultimate x64

I have the same problem as katat (only since yesterday). Looks like it’s a problem with processing the data from metrolyrics rather than the songs we’re playing but for what its worth, it happened on the whole of Crossfade’s album, Falling away and Trivium–Ember To Inferno (both MP3 format).
Thanks

Hi,

I have the same problem as kakat and luckyrat, and i think it is not related to the song itself but to some kind of bug in the add-on or the communication with metrolyrics, just as luckyrat said. I’ve tried with mp3 and flac files from coldplay, bon jovi, bob sinclair, etc. The most of the times it showed up for the first time the screen with the word undefined and only showed the strange code kakat described when i hit the next match button but one time the order was inverted. I don’t know if this helps anything but it worth to try.

I forgot to refer that anyway your add-on is awesome and very useful and user-friendly. I love the way the embed youtube videos interact with the entire songbird and the info about the artist. By the way, I think it'd be great if you added a fifth tab with the info about the album of the music playing, including the cover and the list of tracks, and a list of the other albums by the same artist. One last thing, but maybe this one is more hard to get done, the position of the song in the international charts...

I’m having this same problem… I think it happened when I upgraded to 0.4 (or 0.4.1…was there a 0.4.1? I forgot) I’m on WinXP 32bit with Songbird 0.5 now, still nothing. I really miss my favorite addon.

I’ve checked all the panes (nothing) and I’ve reinstalled the addon (like CozaMcCoza). The tab in the options panel still shows up (should be merged into the addon’s preference in a popup form, because the options dialog is getting increasingly large). I want my mashTape back…please? I can post you whatever info you need…just email me.

I’ve found the problem to this. It is the extension System tray support. I uninstalled this, restarted and Mashtray is back up. It also sorted out another problem I was having with the Start/Stop button extension.

Seems like there is something in the coding with that extension causing problems as I found someone else with problems using that extension of the same nature

Hello !
Just to say that I have the same lyrics problems…
Good add-on thought !

Nice one! I can confirm that the lyrics work again in 0.1.4.

Thanks

Yeah. I had Songbird fixed for a while but then it died again. I uninstalled System Tray support and then it’s worked like a charm again. Too bad…I like that extension, too.

I’m using WinXP and Songbird 0.6pre 20080524 and it doesn’t work. I have the following error :

Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NSERRORFAILURE) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]” nsresult: “0x80004005 (NSERRORFAILURE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://songbird-mashtape/content/mashTape.js :: anonymous :: line 141” data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Songbird/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 988

Thanks for your great job.

Wow, Extremely Cool! Hopefully this will be embedded into songbird. This really shows people how cool open source programs are, and how creative people can get. If I can give any criticism it is that they pictures move very fast when you scroll. If that could be smoothed out and slowed down it would be great!! However that’s just a personal preference:) Great job Stevel!

@stevel : Nothing special, I just opened Songbird!

This is a really nice little tool. I have not noticed any deterioration in performance at all since installing.

Fantastic, except I have to turn on mashTape every time I start Songbird.

Excellent!

One of my fav addons but I have one small issue. When I first start Songbird the content pane bottom is there, but it’s just blank and while. The only way to get the plugin to work is to click the icon at the top right of this pane and click the already ticked mashTape option. Other than that, top addon!
In the options I have the Artist Bio tab set as the Default Tab to Display. I am on Ubutnu 8.04.
If you’d like any more info let me know and I’ll be happy to help.

great work, stevel. two changes might really improve it, though:
1. separate the shared tags and lyrics tab into two tabs - i love to read the lyrics, but the tags added to the song are rather useless to see at the same time.
2. i order my music by the artist’s last name, so the structure is ‘Johnson, Jack’ resp. ‘Streets, The’ instead of ‘Jack Johnson’/’The Streets’ - but the lyrics search engine works only with the keywords that make up the full artist’s name kept strictly in the ‘first name – last name’ order.
would be great to add that flexibility to the lyric search.
thanks
smartn

ups – second, more readable attempt…
great work, stevel. two changes might really improve it, though:
1. separate the shared tags and lyrics tab into two tabs – i love to read the lyrics, but the tags added to the song are rather useless to see at the same time.
2. i order my music by the artist’s last name, so the structure is ‘Johnson, Jack’ resp. ‘Streets, The’ instead of ‘Jack Johnson’/’The Streets’ – but the lyrics search engine works only with the keywords that make up the full artist’s name kept strictly in the ‘first name – last name’ order.
would be great to add that flexibility to the lyric search.
thanks
smartn

I accidentally hid the MashTape panel. How do I get it back? I even tried reinstalling the add-on and its still hidden. x[

tmcaffeine – To get the MashTape panel back go to “View”->”Show Content Pane Bottom”. If the MashTape panel does not appear, click on the pane selector thing in the upper right hand corner and click on MashTape in the pop up list.

When I have the add-on No-Script enabled the photos scroll as fast as(maybe faster) when using the scroll arrow.
Any idea if there is a url I can add to the white list or another work around to get the photos to scroll normally? I have flicker.com and songbird etc on the white list already.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Not sure what I did but when I enabled the noscript add-on again to verify the sites on the white list the photos are scrolling at the normal speed. Not gong to complain…
And to reiterate others comments, this is a great add-on. The concert list is nice, I can look for concerts as I hear the song and usually get them before they are sold out.

Nice Work!
But in my country youtube and flickr are in filtered websites list!
it will be appreciated if the extension could have a bult-in proxy setting apart from songbird's one.

sweetums, this is really cool. for some reason though the flickr photos scroll by themselves at random intervals. also it would be nice for the videos to be able to click them and go to youtube in songbird so you can watch the video in a larger window if something looks worth watching.

Any word on when MashTape will be ready for 0.7rc1?

This is the best thing I've seen in years! Thank you, so very much.

But, is there a file I can edit that will allow me to change the image scrolling speed? I can't really enjoy them moving so fast.

Good to know, can't wait.

Could it load cover art first "wile" fetching images from the web? And then alternate the cover art every eight and twelve images, just to mix it up. Or maybe Songbird can load a flash window there? I know there are pre-made open source flickr slideshows everywhere.

I'd really like if it only jumped back to the default tab after restarting Songbird, now it go's back to the default tab after very song.

I'm not trying to sound confusing or ungrateful, just helpful. I know nothing about scripting :)

However, I love it! Thanks....

Hi! Here's my question: my mash-up extension is installed and comes in the content panel button up every time i start up Songbird, but it's totally blank. So I click on the panel and select mash-up, then the extension hides at the bottom of the window and i have to drag it up to view it.
I have the latest version of Songbird (0.6.1), and the other add-ons installed are: Album Art Manager, Album Applet, Birdtitle, Details Page, Media Flow, Now Playing List.
I tried disabling them all, the mash-up does not hide in the bottom but it's still blank 'till I "wake it up".
I read tha others have the same problem. Hope someone can help. Bye!

Great idea but the scrolling is way too fast and even with the smooth setting on it sometimes seems to jump.

mashTape seems to crash songbird on the last two release candidates. I am currently on Songbird/0.7.0rc3 on Ubuntu 8.04 and with the mashTape addon enabled the whole app freezes up.

If you need any more info shout - I was getting this on rc2 as well.

Great add-on! Works perfect, for me!

Photos scroll way to fast, so I removed the add-on.

This still crashes songbird for me now on the 0.7.0 beta version. I install mashTape... restart songbird, enable the add-on in the bottom pane, play a track, skip next, skip next and then it freezes the whole app untill I kill the process.

I can reproduce this reliably with different tracks and artists each time. I'm wondering if it's flash for the youtube videos causing the crash... Anyone know how I disable flash in songbird but keep it in Firefox on Ubuntu?

I love it, I great BUT! Lyric that download from lyricWiki It's didn't support non-english song name, This song is support Buddha Bless:Fire but This song isn't support Buddha Bless:ทะเล. It's Thai song, and I try Japanese song, It didn't support too.

Have tried this add-on after removing flash from my system and it works perfectly. I can only conclude that Flash, which isn't that great on Ubuntu anyway, is crashing Songbird.

Will ask on Get Satisfaction about removing flash exclusively from Songbird.

really kewl feature... now i wud like to c an EQ for songbird ... include it and songbird is dere amongst d best

"If you click on the YouTube video itself (rather than on the play button), it should open up a new browser tab with the video’s webpage on YouTube."

Does this really work? For some reason it's refusing to do it for me.
Just stays where it is, small screen.

there is a way to have the link in italian?
The information are in english but when i click on "read more about.." i'm connected to the italian page of last.fm (but in the box the text is in english)

why mashTape is always requesting permission to connect youTube?

I keep getting an error "Adobe Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation" in between song changes. This error goes away when Mashtape is uninstalled. Anyone got any ideas?

I assume I get the same error message between song changes. Click on "Settings" or "Ok" doesn't have any effect.

"Adobe Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation.

The following local application on your computer or network:

chrome://mashtap/content/iframeFlash.html

is trying to communicate with this Internet-enabled location:

www.youtube.com

To let this application communicate with the Internet, click Settings. You must restart this application after changing your settings."

platform: Mac OS X 10.5 on a Macbook Pro

The problem persists if you turn off the video tab

I love this add-on but i´ve been having some trouble with it.
when i install more add ons, mash tape stop showing in the menu, i cant find it anywhere and uninstalling it and reinstalling doesn't work.
im running songbird 0.7 on mac os 10.5.5(leopard)
i think something si uncompatible

i meant the control pane bottom, mash tape doesnt show in any control pane any more, its missing from the pane selector too. but still is in the preferences and add-ons menu

so i can configure it but i cant view it
i tested with only show in library checked and unchecked, still not working.
sorry for the split post

Can I just make a suggestion(it's probably already been made) but can you slow down the picture slideshow a bit, or make an option for viewing length for each photo? It's moving too fast for me...lol. Thanks

sure, im on it

@ stevel:
that worked. I had to add chrome:// to the allowed sites.

@stevel,
Is it possible to cue the videos to to play one after the next? I am using the mtv Plugin, and sure would like to just sit back and have teh videos play.

@ stevel:
I was getting the same Adobe error message, thanks for the clear instructions. It was annoying. Now it works fine.

@stevel
No problem at all, I will do that.

@stevel,
Is there a way to get Mashtape to return exact matches on artists? eg: I would be playing John Holt, and though i would see his images, I would also see images of just anyone with the name John, or Holt.. including family pictures.

@stevel
lol...An absolute pleasure, seeing that I have no tech skills to offer except feedback from my basic usage. :)

Pardon the extra post, but since you say you will be addressing the above issue, I thought I should post this now rather than later, if it is not addressed in the update you are working on.

I have no idea how you would address this:
An artist such as 'Monica' ... when playing, it displays Santa Monica etc as expected from previous post, but it also displays any person that has the name Monica, though they are not in the music field.

I am assuming that it will be difficult if not impossible to rule out mismatches totally, but I had to sound off anyway.

Thanks for listening.

great addon

Thank you Stevel. I understand you fully. Please keep up the great work!

@stevel try a non excludent ordering based on secondary tags like band, show, gig, music, artist... it will prioritize some unwanted pics, but should result a better ordering at least.
and on 0.7 most of the info is gone. can´t see anything from musicbrainz, smugshot, yahoo music videos...

WOW, I did not realize that if one sees a picture in mashtape that they would like for the album art, all u have to do is drag it from mashtape to the album art area? AWESOME.

Yes, I know that the album art could be dragged onto,. but did not realize I could drag from Mashtape to it.

can you post the part of the old mashtape that showed lyrics, as a new 'provider' for it, I liked that better than lyric master at times.

Hi all,

how can i switch the mashtape language? My mashtape window always keeps blank and shows only on tab. I'm a german user and i think its a problem with the installed language. I disabled the german language in songbird but that didn't help. Mashtape keeps german after that also after i reinstalled it. what can i do?

thx for help

hallo,
i'm also from Germany. Besides, i'm also confrontaded with the same promblem.
So the window keeps blank and shows only on tab.like sxe.

please help me!

songbird is the greatest and the most innovative music player ever!!!
grüße aus Deutschland!

@stevel: You are the man!!! Thanks a lot. I had also the same problem. But this update fixed it. Yeah!!!! Thanks

I love this. The only thing which I would add is the option to put it on the top instead of the bottom of the screen. Maybe having it as a media view as well? Would this new placement option be possible? Thanks!

I run Ubuntu 8.10, 32 bit. This isn't a very dire problem, just a slight annoyance. Even when songbird is minimized, the mashtape continues to cycle pictures. This creates little spikes in cpu usage every couple of seconds. It's not really a problem for my rig, but I could see it slowing down older machines. It would be much better if mashtape could detect when songbird was minimized and stop cycling pictures.

I posted in get satisfaction as well, I don't know if that's proper etiquette or not.

Sweet add-on! It really shows what Songbird can do.

I'm on Windows Vista with very slow internet connection (128 kbps).
Therefore I've disabled news, photos and videos option in mash Tape, but still it downloads files from flickr and some other sites. I saw almost 15+ connection to flickr server in my firewall thru Songbird. This really sucks, because I can't surf while songbird is running. Please fix this problem, so that mesh Tape only collects information I want. Otherwise, the addon is great!

Oh my sweet jesus. Thanks guys.

Any chance you can have it "remember" its position so that it doesn't switch back to default every time I close it and then pull it back up?

After todays update mashtape displays only localized versions of pages, lastfm for example. How can i switch language in mashtape back to english?

Could you please add language selector or something, i want see pages in English not localized ones(russian in my case) Rolled back to previous version for now=)

Yes that was the problem, now i set English in options and all works perfect!
Thank you.

Hi there, just updated and I can no longer see embedded videos in the mashtape pane. It just displays the video title. See image:
http://stashbox.org/337534/2008-12-24_144615.png
I'm disabling addons now to see if another extension could be interfering, but if that's not the case i hope this can be resolved soon.

thx

Hello, is there a opportunity to get the photos shown in the tab "Fotos" in full screen? So I would have a screensaver or a visualization during playing my mp3. Thanks for your help

The photo tab has stopped displaying photos, i uninstalled and reinstalled mash tape and that didn't help...does anyone else have any ideas?

I love going to the artist's page on Last.fm and look at their charts, so in addition to the last.fm icon, could you make the artist image link to their Last.fm page.

And I wouldnt mind a little more review sites...
2) Pitchfork reviews, hype machine integration? maybe...?

Thanks stevel! Love your work!

@stevel well flash video sites like youtube were working..but anyway i gave up and re-installed songbird now it's back to normal so another addon was to blame.

now to find which one..

The plugin is telling me about every artist that there isn't a biography on last.fm but there actually is one. (even tells me that for the rolling stones and metallica :P ) This is really annoying, cause I really like to read those in mashtape!
It actually worked a while ago.

Please localize comment with amazon.fr !

great thanks for your work !

I'm sorry, but what do I need to change to English? :P

Awesome Add-on! Is there a way I can slow down the speed the pictures revovle at? I would really like the pictures to fade in at a slower rate or just go by much slower.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Changed the songbird language back to English and it's working now, many thanks!
Isn't it possible to choose a 1st and 2nd language?

Doesn't seem to recognize symbols in artist names. It seems recognize names like "Pocahaunted + Rboedoor" as "Pocahaunted Robedoor".

hello!! great job stevel, thank you very much. for my will be fabolous two new tabs, 1º with the information about the albums with the current song, you can find the information in lastfm or musicbrainz. 2º with the most popular tracks of the actual group (lastfm). if is posible. great work ass well. thanks.

Hi, great addon!
One thing I don't understand though.
I might be stupid but I can't find a way to change the locale of mashTape to use the same as the rest of Songbird, it uses the same as my OS instead.

I am running Swedish Vista SP1, Songbird is the English version and in Sonbird Options->Content->Languages I only have en-us. However, mashTape runs in Swedish and it tries to get Artist Information etc in Swedish. Setting Artist Information to use Wikipedia auto-localized it still picks up Swedish. I want mashTape to be in English as the rest of Songbird is in English and it just looks weird.

Hmm I don't think I explained well enough. 14777 is only about artist info, I am talking about every mashTape text string. For example if I go to Tools->Options..->mashTape everything is in Swedish. The same with the mashTape strings in the main UI window, all is in Swedish. The rest of my Songbird and every other addon is in English.

Great addon, it's dead useful. Just a few things:

1) Get Pandora artist bios as well as Last.fm's. Or at least offer a link to Pandora's bios.
2) The photo reel can use a better GUI. The one like Flock's media film strip or something Cooliris-like would be sweet. Coverflow can work as well, though TBH I'm a bit sick of coverflow.
3) Can we have a wikipedia tab instead of a link?

I hate to double post, but I forgot to mention this: The "Photos" results usually aren't that good. By this I mean that the Flickr photo search only searches for the "artist name", and not some thing like "artist name band", so I often get non-music related results when looking at the Photos strip. Same goes for the News tab.

@stevel - Took me a good while to find the language setting under the File menu option! :) I had disabled and even uninstalled the Swedish language pack, but the language under File->Language was not reset to English (US). Live and learn....

Well it works just well now, the "bug" rather seems to be with Songbird then, I think it should change language setting if you uninstall/disable the language pack to the same language Songbird defaults to.

Also, thanks a lot for your quick replies! :)

@stevel,
I suppose that mashtape is not intended for the location where we would see 'now playing' or 'selected' album art? I ask, because when i try to put it there, strange things happen, such as overlapping or ... well, strange things. If it is not intended to be there, then I will hold off from posting images.. otherwise I would show u what I have.

OK, great... so incidentally problem solved :) Thanks for the quick response.

Praise: This is such a great add-on. What an excellent way to consolidate tons of useful information in one place. Thank you.

Idea: Would it be possible to add the Pitchfork Media album rating and maybe their album review to the "Album Reviews" section. How about any other online reviews, maybe Rolling Stone, or Paste Magazine? It could use a little more variety. thanks again. keep up the great work!

last.fm bio not working for Czech version :(

I really love this addon!!!!!
It's perfect xD

I think this extension will convince many friends of mine to use Songbird ;)

Actually, I wanted to thank you, but I forgot to do it.

PS: a suggestion:
also allmusic ( http://www.allmusic.com/ ) writes good and complete reviews.
These are not written by users, however

If you change your language, some biography of last.fm not appear although the biography exist in English an the other language for the other its a very useful plug in

This is wicked, def' a main reason to switch to Songbird.

Is there anyway though that there could be an option to switch from finding info on "artist" to finding info on "album artist"? I've got lots of collaboration albums where the artist name comes up as a mix of two artists.

For example: "Edan/Mr. Lif" - In this case Artist info doesn't find anything even though it would find info on Edan and it would find info on Mr Lif.

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/top5_songlist_at_last_fm_in_songbird

top5 songlist from Last.fm in Songbird
Songbird is a really great media player, I've never liked any other player more. It has everything - nice looks with feathers, lyric-support and excellent addons, specially Mash-tape, which I've discovered to be my new best friend!

Alright, enough ass-kissing and on to my idea:
One of the previous media players I've tried had the function to see the top5 songs on Last.fm, which I found very nice since I love to discover new music and this helps me doing so.

I don't know if this has been requested before (couldn't find it in this section), but maybe this is something that others would want implemented as well?

(example):
I'm playing a song from the artist "Queen". According to last.fm, the most listened songs by Queen is:
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Don't stop me now
3. We will rock you
4. Killer queen.
5. Another one bites the dust.

Perhaps this list can be placed in the lower-right square, where the album cover is by default?

Thanks,
Kristoffer, Sweden

(see screenshot in post)

Hello, i don't know if this is the best place to ask for a feature for mashtape, but i don't know where else to ask for it.
Anyway i have a lot of compilation albums in my collection and this is a great problem for
mashtape. I have all the artist names set to Various or Various Artists and i the track title on the ID3 tag i have (Artist / track name) basically this is how gnudb.org and freedb.org handles compilation albums lately.
So what i am asking is for a feature in mashtape so that when artist name is Various or Various Artists the title should be checked for both of them so when the title is something like
"'Robbie Williams / Angels" artist should be robbie Williams and track name Angels.
maybe a better way to do this is to have an option in the setup of meshtape to specify how compilations should be handled.

Just recently, Mash Tape is always switching to "maximized" whenever I change views in the library (media view changes, or switch from a playlist to main library view, etc.). Not sure what caused this, but I'm guessing it was the most recent Mash Tape update?

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/improvement_for_mashtape_use_album_artist_instead_of_artist_to_get_metadata

Improvement for Mashtape: Use Album Artist instead of Artist to get metadata
Hi, I'd like to suggest something that other people also might like:

I'd like to be able to select if Mashtape uses Artist or Album Artist in order to get the info from last.fm etc. (or put in a preference order...).
There's many duets or other songs with artists featuring other artists and for those constellations last.fm rarely has an entry big enough to find pictures for the flickr slideshow etc...

Think about it, shouldn't be too much of an effort to implement this change (i think?)...

Mash Tape doesn't work with the new version of Songbird. I install the new version of add-on but i lost my mash tape

I recieve the message " Select an add-on from the menu" . I don't know where i can find the menu

hi stevel, im loving mashtape, like browsing blogs about the artist or watching videos, its just great.

What i wish for is something relatively easy (i guess) : elbo.ws integration for news tab, or a seperate tab that links to the artists page at http://elbo.ws/

this would be soo cool = )

thanks & happy work!

MashTape is great! I'm rediscovering Flickr as I listen, but crave more variety. Here's a braindump of several ideas - hopefully there's one or two worth doing!

1. Mix the sources together (flickr PLUS smugmug PLUS last.fm PLUS...?) or make it easy to switch mid-stream without going to the option/settings page

2. Option to randomize the order of the photos

3. Really random: Option to pull photos based on song title or even lyrics, not just artist name.

4. Match mood photos - some of my classical music pulls up beautiful scenery or artwork that's described as inspired by the music. I wonder if there are "mood attributes" that could be crosslinked from something like Pandora's music genome to match photo tags or some sort of visual-genome that analyzes colors etc. for a mood-match option

5. option to switch photos mid-stream for "more from this photographer" or "more from this flickr group"

6. a music label or music site could generate some nice buzz by providing rss feeds of "this artist's favorite photos and artwork" or "studio and tour photos" to mix in.

7. "Show my Flickr favorites", or "add this photo to my flickr favorites"

8. I haven't tried any mini or medium songbird players yet, but it would be great if they displayed the mashtape photos or videos.

9. I'm assuming that flickr is giving only the "family friendly" safe photos (i've got kids around the house). confirming that would be great to know...

10. Too many ideas! The third one (mid-stream option to pull by song title) might give the most randomness for least work! I tried plugging in a bunch of song titles to flickr and got some interesting results....

Just commenting to say thank you for this extension. For me, it is almost always running and a must have extension.

Fresh install of Songbird and Mashtape just displays a blank white space when I select Wikipedia for Artist Info. Any ideas?

Great work!

I like this but it would be awesome if the Wikipedia bit worked, I've not managed to make it do anything visible yet. Definitely loads of potential though :)

Great Add-on. But after updating to the new version, it won't work with the German language pack anymore. Entering the options-menu causes songbird to crash.

[JavaScript Error: "undefined entity" {file; "chrome://mashtape/content/prefs.Overlay.xul" line: 200 column: 6 source: " <caption />"}]

hi, I have the same error with ther German language since the update!

[JavaScript Error: "undefined entity" {file; "chrome://mashtape/content/prefs.Overlay.xul" line: 200 column: 6 source: " <caption />"}]

The same with French language ;)

An other bug :

With Japanes caracters, have don't the biography on Last.fm, but it's on the web site!!!

Please hurry up to fix this bug (16171)!
Thanks for your great work

Have long enjoyed this add-on.

Would like to see the addition of Metacritic reviews to the Reviews tab.

There is an issue I'm noticing: When a new song starts playing, a video from the "Videos" tab starts playing automatically. The effect is that the video is playing in the bg and so is the song, so it is very confusing and annoying.

It seems like the MTV videos auto start when they load up, maybe that's the issue?

this is probably a stupid question (new to songbird) but is there a way to change the color of the font in mashtape? im using the sparkle feather and cant read the text in mashtape bc its too dark. Tried everything i could think of. thanks

POS.

Plays arbitrary music while I am listening to something. Two songs at once? Give me a break. Not only that, but the tunes that are interfering with what I am trying to listen to are tunes that I don't even own. Example: trying to listen to Dylan, what I hear is Dylan + Pretenders. I don't own any Pretenders.

Stupid stupid stupid design. Stick to your day job.

Works well for me except that it can't recognise artist names formatted as "Band, The" rather than "The Band". If an option for this or a mechanism to detect ", The" at the end of artist names could be added, that would be wonderful.

Mashtape adds a constant load on the CPU (for me ~+15%). I know it needs some time to fetch its data, and to render the photos, but I wonder why it still keeps using CPU, after 2-3min, when already everything seems to be loaded and the photo-tab isn't visible.

There also were some complains about it on GetSatisfation, lately, I added some ProcessGraphs to these topics, if it helps you:

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/mashtape_high_cpu_usage_mac_os
and
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/less_cpu_time_with_photo_slide_show_function_of_mashtape_off
or
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/mashtape_resource_usage

Thanks! /(° v °)/=@