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Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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post #18

Great 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).

Try the latest nightly, it should come with big improvements over the last release (including better playback on windows): http://download.tomahawk-player.org/nightly/windows/tomahawk...

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#22
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AcoustID maybe?

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#23
I tried it a few months ago and liked it, but the android app wasnt ready.

And I didnt like that I couldnt save the songs I listened to any the device that I listened to them on - like a simple local cache. Whats the big deal with adding a "Download" or "Save" option...for any streams.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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post #2

Hope you guys like it. We've got a major update in the works too, as well as an Android app. All free and open source.

Hello,

I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something? Thanks

EDIT: Using Windows 7

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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I 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.

Thanks for the kind words. We've fixed the problem with the default Ubuntu theme and also have a bunch more design improvements, as well as general bug fixes which you can find in git (stable-0.8 and HEAD).

Not being able to resolve tracks at all sounds strange, though. Right now I would guess it's either a corrupted database or index. Could you try and see if you can reproduce the issue after wiping your settings / database? (~/.local/share/Tomahawk and ~/.config/Tomahawk)

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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post #2

Hope you guys like it. We've got a major update in the works too, as well as an Android app. All free and open source.

I like the idea, would it be possible to add YouTube support (or does that maybe already exist)? (Of course, only playing the audio part and ignoring the video)

You can find pre-packaged versions of all our resolvers (updated nightly) here: http://teom.org/axes/nightly/ - just use "Install from file" in Tomahawk's settings and pick the .axe file.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#27

http://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-base…

I assume it just wasn't accessible enough for the average user to gain a bigger user-base. The technology behind it is still alive in Tomahawk, though, and you'll be able to use Tomahawk as a headless daemon (which you can control through a restful JSON-API) in the near future.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#28
post #11

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…

For subscriptions resolvers, users are required to be subscribers - so Tomahawk drives more users into subscription relationships.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#29
post #2

Hope you guys like it. We've got a major update in the works too, as well as an Android app. All free and open source.

Hello, I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something? Thanks EDIT: Using Windows 7

i've never had success with spotify and tomahawk on windows. last time i tried, i could occasionally find stuff, but playback hardly worked.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

#30
post #23

I tried it a few months ago and liked it, but the android app wasnt ready. And I didnt like that I couldnt save the songs I listened to any the device that I listened to them on - like a simple local cache. Whats the big deal with adding a "Download" or "Save" option...for any streams.

It would violate the terms of service of the various streaming APIs that Tomahawk hits.
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