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Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by graue »

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this?

I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way.

I'm still going to finish mine, because I have some different UI/design ideas. For instance, I want a visually-oriented player with cover art very prominently featured, whereas yours doesn't show art at all.

But on the technical side of things, the concept is rather identical. Have you tested it on a smartphone browser and does it work/look good? I didn't use Bootstrap like you, so I'll probably have to create a totally separate mobile interface.

Anyway, well done!

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by clicks »

graue wrote: post #41

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this? I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way. I'm still going to finish mine, becaus…

Heh, that makes the three of us. Though, I also was using Bootstrap in addition to HML5+Backbone+Flask.

But I think I'll abandon my project (I was in the earlier steps either way), study you guys' efforts, and work on something else.

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by mikevm »

graue wrote: post #41

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this? I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way. I'm still going to finish mine, becaus…

Wow, so many technologies. How do you people find out (and keep track) of these frameworks?

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by zanny »

mikevm wrote: post #43
graue wrote: post #41

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this? I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way. I'm still going to finish mine, becaus…

Wow, so many technologies. How do you people find out (and keep track) of these frameworks?

Read a lot of HN, and as a general principle, whenever you are about to write a novel application, google for it, because someone already did it and its on github. Then read a lot of code and framework manuals.

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by monus21 »

graue wrote: post #41

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this? I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way. I'm still going to finish mine, becaus…

cool.I made one that streams from Google Drive on top of App Engine using Backbone. http://tunebanda.com

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by bocmaxima »

graue wrote: post #41

Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this? I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way. I'm still going to finish mine, becaus…

let us know when you finish your cover art version. I'd love to see one that let's you sort the albums by the color of the cover art.

Re: Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

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Post by ejstronge »

This is lovely - thanks a lot!

I listen to a lot of foreign music and have had a hard time populating my zmusic database. There's a work-around (decode the relevant strings to Unicode) that seems to have worked but I have to leave for work before I'll be able to test this fully. I've never submitted a patch before and hope to use this as an opportunity to learn how to make one.

I have a basic question, however: why did you decide to use tab characters in your python? Most libs whose code I've read use spaces but I've never seen an argument for one convention or the other.

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