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Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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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.

Spotify version 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575, installed this morning when I read about Concertmaster.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

Thank you! I can confirm that this works for me on Arch Linux after unpacking the .deb and running the executable from there. (This is with Spotify v1.0.67.582-1 from AUR - but I never saw the other freezing problem that mafrasi2 mentioned, so I can't comment on that)

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

I was able to install on Ubuntu with Software Center after downloading the deb. The UI is a big improvement for classical music.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

Thanks for making this, it's wonderful and will make a _huge_ difference to my listening on Spotify. For example, I've got a thing about Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and I've found a whole load of new recordings I knew nothing about. A few comments and suggestions:

Pieces are sorted strictly alphabetically, which means that lists of "String Quartet number X" are sorted like:

String Quartet no. 1 String Quartet no. 10 String Quartet no. 12 String Quartet no. 13 String Quartet no. 2

Not sure how complicated that is to change, but it would make browsing a little easier if they were listed numerically.

I find the horizontal listing of composers a bit unintuitive, and would prefer a vertical list (probably to do with ubiquity of vertical scrolling in apps and browsers), perhaps between favourites and list of works. Really like the fact that it includes images and isn't just a dry list of names though.

Seems like there are a number of not-so-esoteric composers missing, such as John Luther Adams (a different person from John Adams), Gavin Bryars, Jacques Duphly and Gérard Grisey, despite the presence of composers that I'd never heard of like Orlande de Lassus. I guess this is a limitation of the data sources, but would love to see some more of those included too.

Searching for "Jana" doesn't return Janáček - presumably because of the accents. Would be great to ignore accents for easy typing on British English / American English keyboards.

The small application icon on Mac - for example the installer disk image icon, and the icon in Mac notifications, is a frazzled multicoloured square rather than a proper icon.

Sometimes a message comes up saying "This isn't available on Spotify - bummer!" but doesn't explain why. I didn't think to check when it happened, but I guess it might be that it's not available in my territory (the UK), and I have Spotify set to show tracks that aren't available. If there was a way to have a bit more explanation in that error message somehow that would be helpful - for example, if it's to do with my setting to show tracks that aren't available, a sentence to say that toggling that setting would make that not happen.

A tiny, tiny thing - clicking Apple + A when in the search box doesn't select all text although double-clicking does.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

#46
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The new version of Concertmaster fixed it for me...the splash screen goes away, the main window comes up, it detects Spotify, and actually plays music.

So far, it's amazing...great job!

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

Thanks for making this, it's wonderful and will make a _huge_ difference to my listening on Spotify. For example, I've got a thing about Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and I've found a whole load of new recordings I knew nothing about. A few comments and suggestions: Pieces are sorted strictly alphabetically, which means that lists of "String Quartet number X" are sorted like: String Quartet no. 1 String Quartet no. 10…

Amazing feedback, thank you so much :)

I’ll carefully analyze your suggestions for our next releases.

The Spotify message is not related to territorial restrictions. Putting it shortly, Concertmaster database wasn’t pre-checked; it checks the availability of each recording in real-time, after user’s request. That's why Concertmaster keeps showing recordings that don’t exist at all on Spotify.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

The new release is working on my Mac whereas yesterday's didn't. Thank you!

I was intrigued by the metadata handling for works; would it be possible to support searching via that data? For instance, I'd be interested in seeing works conducted by Bernstein, or performances by a specific orchestra.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

The new release is working on my Mac whereas yesterday's didn't. Thank you! I was intrigued by the metadata handling for works; would it be possible to support searching via that data? For instance, I'd be interested in seeing works conducted by Bernstein, or performances by a specific orchestra.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I think this is the most common request. Now, Concertmaster is heavily composer/work-oriented. But I see your point and sometimes I find myself willing some sort of musician search.

Maybe we would switch to a more flexible UX in the future.

Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

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FIX RELEASED! Please download the new versions at: Win: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=win Mac: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=mac Linux: http://getconcertmaster.com/latest/?os=linux

Thank you for the fix and this awesome program in general!

I found the issue that caused concertmaster to freeze for me: I wasn't running a notification server. It's working perfectly now that I've installed xfce4-notifyd.

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