Hey,
That sounds awesome, I am curious, how do you work with the providers (google, soundcloud and co ..) so that they can make some revenue ? (because you know these guys are just not streaming music for free ...
Also I tried the web-app with a good album (Pixies - Doolittle)
http://toma.hk/album/Pixies/Doolittle
but all the songs in that albums are actually covers or remixes and none are the original Pixies version ... (probably what's happening when you look for "pixies debaser" in youtube or soundcloud.
Anyway, the interface is super polished and cool, and I really like the idea of "having everything in one place" + jabber integration, there is really some major things to do with this, and there you are..
Tomahawk – A meta source music player
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Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player
#12I really like the concept, but the software is totally broken in Linux. Not even adding files to a playlist works. The song names are in the playlist, but the files can't be found. The program crashes every time it's closed. And there's a problem with the default Ubuntu theme: Selected menu items have white text on a white background.
A few patches and it could be a great player.
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#13http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/03/awesome-desktop-music-...
"Playdar was really a headless, UI-less technology that could be leveraged by online sites and services to let users bring their own content to other people’s contexts.”
Why was Playdar not successful as standalone technology? It would seem applicable to a broad set of use cases for content-addressable data stores.
Calibre (also open-source, also Qt-based) has metadata plugins for various online ebook services. There's a growing number of browser extensions which overlay user data onto websites, many of these extensions would benefit from a widely-used content resolver that works in cross-domain (home, work, mobile1, mobile2, site1, site2) contexts.
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#14Tried it, but unfortunately it basically didn't work at all for me. Last.fm history download broke at 8%, all Spotify tracks were rendered unavailable after they played once, and soundcloud doesn't work.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does, of course. You can mix your local library with Spotify, SoundCloud and many more.
It's currently identifying songs by meta-data only. There is an audio fingerprinter (using Last.fm's service) in the works, but as you can imagine that only solves part of the problem: getting fingerprints for data from all the various supported sources is a lot harder.
You may want to add a "local files" icon in the Multi-Source section of the home page.
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#16Hey, That sounds awesome, I am curious, how do you work with the providers (google, soundcloud and co ..) so that they can make some revenue ? (because you know these guys are just not streaming music for free ... Also I tried the web-app with a good album (Pixies - Doolittle) http://toma.hk/album/Pixies/Doolittle but all the songs in that albums are actually covers or remixes and none are the original Pixies version…
Afaik, Soundcloud makes its money from their artists, not listeners.
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#17Tried it, but unfortunately it basically didn't work at all for me. Last.fm history download broke at 8%, all Spotify tracks were rendered unavailable after they played once, and soundcloud doesn't work.
If you're on linux switching your phonon backend may help. Try removing phonon-gstreamer and installing phonon-vlc.
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#18Great idea, I used it with spotify and last.fr plugins on Windows), it takes 15s to start playing a song (from spotify) and changing the volume level takes few seconds (it feels like VLC a few versions ago, it seems to use the same libs).
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#19I really like the concept, but the software is totally broken in Linux. Not even adding files to a playlist works. The song names are in the playlist, but the files can't be found. The program crashes every time it's closed. And there's a problem with the default Ubuntu theme: Selected menu items have white text on a white background. A few patches and it could be a great player.
Feel free to help out: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk and we're available on #tomahawk on irc.freenode.net for better support/troubleshooting.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does, of course. You can mix your local library with Spotify, SoundCloud and many more.
Is it identifying song names by file metadata, binary fingerprints, audio fingerprints?
At the moment we are just supporting file metadata but we will hopefully add audio fingerprints soon.