Another app that is very nicely done and has excellent classical music support is Roon: https://roonlabs.com/
I'd be interested to see if there is any feature difference between the two in case anyone has used / does use both.
Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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#32This is great! I wished something like this existed for Indian classical music, since in it also a composition can be performed by multiple artists differently and multiple performances can be created with with different permutations of the rhythm and melody. This player, as is, doesn't account for compositional units of Indian classical music (obviously because it's designed for Western Classical music). Language is…
Yes! Where can I find a good source of Indian Classical Music on the web? Do any of these streaming sources have good (and by that I mean deep) catalogues of ICM?
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#33It looks fantastic from the website! On my mac though, it’s stuck at “Loading…” on the launch screen. It’s also a pity it’s not open source, it would be great to be able to contribute composers.
If you're stuck at "Loading..." on your Mac, click on the Concertmaster icon in the nav bar, and select "Open Concertmaster"
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#34Very nice, and will be much nicer when the bugs are worked out. It looks like the catalog Concertmaster is using is rather limited, though. For example, for Thomas Adès only 5 pieces are listed, though Spotify has many more.
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Fun to see other people looking into my code. Great job :) Concertmaster is built over Electron and, as such, it is 100% JavaScript. In fact, it's not a more convenient website only because of Spotify's limitations. It would be possible to make Concertmaster open source, but it's far from professional - it's more like a hobby I'm keeping for 3, 4 years. (Concertmaster is more than the client. It has several server-si…
Don't worry about code quality, it's perfectly readable. Although I only have very limited javascript knowledge, I would love to contribute if you make this open source. It's really a great project! After a few seconds, it still freezes for me, so that's one thing I could try to fix :)
I use Concertmaster all the time on my Mac, with no problems at all. Which OS are you running?
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
#36Hi, Concertmaster developer here. Thanks for trying the app. Very surprised by the repercussion! Well, the current version of Concertmaster has a known bug which freezes the app in its first run. (This issue will be solved in a major update January, but I’m seriously thinking of releasing a fix today or tomorrow.) Please try closing the app and running it again. It may work
Looks neat, but I have the bug. As a "workaround" (as someone mentioned later in the thread), if I click on the tray icon I can open the app, and then close the splash screen manually. However, I can't get it to play anything, and when I go to the Options screen, the Spotify Status is always "Spotify is not running or unresponsive".
Which Spotify version do you have? They keep changing things and these changes often break Concertmaster. I'll release a new version tonight and it will, hopefully, fix most bugs. So far, it's running flawlessly on my own computer.
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Don't worry about code quality, it's perfectly readable. Although I only have very limited javascript knowledge, I would love to contribute if you make this open source. It's really a great project! After a few seconds, it still freezes for me, so that's one thing I could try to fix :)
I use Concertmaster all the time on my Mac, with no problems at all. Which OS are you running?
I'm running Arch Linux with spotify version 1.0.67.582.g19436fa3. It gets stuck at this screen as soon as I start playing something:
https://i.imgur.com/WJZKiUA.png
After that, the GUI elements just don't respond at all. There is no CPU usage, so it's probably not an infinite loop.
I enabled logging, but don't see anything significant.
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Tried this with the Linux version, no luck. (I'm using Arch Linux but unpacking the .deb reveals an executable that appears to run, it just gets stuck on Loading as you describe.) I really look forward to trying this out when that's fixed, or if you can suggest a workaround. It's a subject I'm very interested in both as a listener and a developer. I spent a while thinking about this problem a few years ago, in the ho…
Hi! Nice to hear from you. Classical music has a very complex taxonomy and the so-called “metadata problem” hasn’t been solved by any streaming provider so far. There are some guys in Berlin that are creating a completely new streamer called Idagio, and it seems promising. But they are struggling to sign deals with labels, the process of adding recordings to their database is understandably slow, and subscribing a ne…
Check out MusicBrainz for metadata. E.g., https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1be1367d-119f-4b08-bdfe-50b95... (Nielsen's artist page) or e.g., https://musicbrainz.org/release/d757ff3a-5502-4e86-952e-dc1e... (an album page) — note all the classical metadata.
Further — the data is licensed freely, and there is an API to get at it all; no scraping needed.
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Hi! Nice to hear from you. Classical music has a very complex taxonomy and the so-called “metadata problem” hasn’t been solved by any streaming provider so far. There are some guys in Berlin that are creating a completely new streamer called Idagio, and it seems promising. But they are struggling to sign deals with labels, the process of adding recordings to their database is understandably slow, and subscribing a ne…
Check out MusicBrainz for metadata. E.g., https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1be1367d-119f-4b08-bdfe-50b95... (Nielsen's artist page) or e.g., https://musicbrainz.org/release/d757ff3a-5502-4e86-952e-dc1e... (an album page) — note all the classical metadata. Further — the data is licensed freely, and there is an API to get at it all; no scraping needed.
Thanks! If I can recall correctly, MBz API doesn’t inform UPC numbers - something essential to the Spotify integration. But it seems nice and I’ll study it further.
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#40Wow, this is something I was just complaining about today, how I had to turn off shuffle because it would mess up the movement order.