Works fine on ubuntu 14.04. Radio is a nice touch. Missing composer is Charles-Valentin Alkan.
Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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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.
Hi! MusicBrainz team member here. We do have UPC numbers (well, barcodes), although if it was me doing this I would depend on those as a second source, and first check if there's an actual Spotify album ID (which we already store, but we don't have that many of right now). In fact, this seems like the kind of app that might make people actually go and add more Spotify album IDs in MusicBrainz just to get more/better content in Concertmaster.
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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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.
Just jumping on here to give my own feedback.
This is brilliantly implemented so hats off for that. It's something I always had on my backlog of personal projects but never got round to doing, but you've managed it far better than I could ever have hoped to.
One thing that would noticeably improve the experience for me: Being able to sort a given series of works by opus/[equivalent catalogue number] or date. It seems at the moment the only sorting method is alphabetical, which is often not particularly helpful (for example, as someone else noted, when 10 appears before 1).
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
#54FIX 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've tried to install this on Arch Linux with the latest version, but I get stuck at the loading screen as others have reported. I would have sent you an email, but I was not able to find your email address. I would be happy to help figure out why it does not work.
I have written a simple PKGBUILD file for installing this on Arch, and I am happy to share that (or upload it to Arch AUR) when I get it to work.
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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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.
Just jumping on here to give my own feedback. This is brilliantly implemented so hats off for that. It's something I always had on my backlog of personal projects but never got round to doing, but you've managed it far better than I could ever have hoped to. One thing that would noticeably improve the experience for me: Being able to sort a given series of works by opus/[equivalent catalogue number] or date. It seems…
Thanks so much for the feedback :)
I'm studying the sorting thing. Opus/catalogue number: not so easy because the data comes from sources that treat this information as strings. But I can think of a text parser, for example. Year of composition: doable.
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
#56FIX 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've tried to install this on Arch Linux with the latest version, but I get stuck at the loading screen as others have reported. I would have sent you an email, but I was not able to find your email address. I would be happy to help figure out why it does not work. I have written a simple PKGBUILD file for installing this on Arch, and I am happy to share that (or upload it to Arch AUR) when I get it to work.
Hi. Which version have you installed? 1.17.1214?
I’ve tried 1.17.1214 on Ubuntu and it worked flawlessly.
A colleague here said that Concertmaster was freezing on his Linux machine because it was lacking a notification server. I wonder if it’s not the same issue you are experiencing.
About Arch: thanks so much for the help! Please confirm the notification issue and I’ll sent you a plain zip version, non-DEB, of Concertmaster.
You (and everybody here) may contact me at:
concertmasterteam @ gmail.com
Re: Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify
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I've tried to install this on Arch Linux with the latest version, but I get stuck at the loading screen as others have reported. I would have sent you an email, but I was not able to find your email address. I would be happy to help figure out why it does not work. I have written a simple PKGBUILD file for installing this on Arch, and I am happy to share that (or upload it to Arch AUR) when I get it to work.
Hi. Which version have you installed? 1.17.1214? I’ve tried 1.17.1214 on Ubuntu and it worked flawlessly. A colleague here said that Concertmaster was freezing on his Linux machine because it was lacking a notification server. I wonder if it’s not the same issue you are experiencing. About Arch: thanks so much for the help! Please confirm the notification issue and I’ll sent you a plain zip version, non-DEB, of Conce…
Yes, 1.17.1214. I'm using dunst [0] for notifications. Perhaps dunst is too minimalistic to support the necessary features?
I'll send you an email to follow up on this issue.