Music Explorer

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Submitted by anarchy_in_the_uk on Mon, 2024/11/04 - 13:29
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Music Explorer

Music Explorer lets you look up information about artists and albums, watch music videos or download and play audio.
This is still a development version so please expect things to change.

Version 0.46 highlights:

  • Improves media download
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AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-musicex-0.30-1.noarch.rpm118.71 KB02/07/2022 - 12:43
File harbour-musicex-0.31-1.noarch.rpm118.91 KB04/07/2022 - 13:41
File harbour-musicex-0.32-1.noarch.rpm120.32 KB05/07/2022 - 01:29
File harbour-musicex-0.33-1.noarch.rpm121.33 KB05/07/2022 - 13:32
File harbour-musicex-0.34-1.noarch.rpm121.95 KB05/07/2022 - 23:53
File harbour-musicex-0.35-1.noarch.rpm122.14 KB07/07/2022 - 11:43
File harbour-musicex-0.36-1.noarch.rpm122.15 KB07/07/2022 - 11:52
File harbour-musicex-0.37-1.noarch.rpm122.49 KB10/07/2022 - 23:38
File harbour-musicex-0.38-1.noarch.rpm122.71 KB16/07/2022 - 11:36
File harbour-musicex-0.39-1.noarch.rpm123.3 KB29/07/2022 - 13:27
File harbour-musicex-0.40-1.noarch.rpm123.36 KB20/08/2022 - 12:34
File harbour-musicex-0.41-1.noarch.rpm123.39 KB06/11/2022 - 12:25
File harbour-musicex-0.42-1.noarch.rpm123.53 KB17/11/2022 - 22:52
File harbour-musicex-0.43-1.noarch.rpm123.53 KB30/11/2022 - 21:16
File harbour-musicex-0.44-1.noarch.rpm123.62 KB04/02/2023 - 23:42
File harbour-musicex-0.45-1.noarch.rpm124.7 KB28/07/2023 - 10:08
File harbour-musicex-0.46-1.noarch.rpm124.7 KB06/12/2023 - 12:07
File harbour-musicex-0.48-1.noarch.rpm148.09 KB04/11/2024 - 13:29
Changelog: 

- 0.1 initial release

Comments

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poetaster

Thu, 2023/06/15 - 15:03

I'm not sure what changed but for some time I don't get any media found. When running on the cli I see:

VIDEO primary error - ignoring video:  int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'NoneType'

For what looks like all the media that's found.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Fri, 2023/07/28 - 10:09

Coud you please check if this issue has been resolved in the newest update? (>=0.45)

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poetaster

Wed, 2023/08/02 - 16:46

Yes, it seems resolved. Media downloads work again! Yeah! Thanks!

I've pushed this to github and chum, too. The github repo now uses actions to automatically build an rpm.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Thu, 2023/06/22 - 10:16

How can I replicate this error?
Feel free to post it to the forum if that's easier.

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trial

Sat, 2023/02/11 - 09:49

Could U provide some info on the backend?
I mean, where is the usage metadata going to? Is there any profiling of the usage patterns?

10x in advance! ^^

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Tue, 2023/02/14 - 11:25

The app itself does not care abour usage patterns but what the various backends (listed below) may do with your searches is outside of my control. Music Exlorer does cache your lookups quite extensively, though. Primarely to remain usable (to some extent) even with no network connection but this also reduces some of the data sent to the backends which could potentially be profiled. 
This applies to search queries, lyrics, downloads, etc. so basically everywhere backend calls are unavoidable. There is nothing inside the app that would e.g. leak how often a specific song is played or the composition of playlists, etc. as this is handled purely on the device itself.

Used backends:
musicbrainz.emby.tv
theaudiodb.com
www.lyricsmania.com
api.lyrics.ovh
youtube.com
 

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Malakay

Sat, 2022/11/19 - 00:28

Crashes on 3.4.0.24 :(

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Sat, 2022/11/19 - 21:38

This could be because of Sailjail.
You could try to run if from the command line:
sailfish-qml harbour-musicex

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Mick

Sun, 2022/07/17 - 14:00

Getting better with each update. Are you planning on adding other features like an equalizer etc?

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Tue, 2022/07/19 - 10:08

Equalizer probably won't be implemented in the near future as this would require a complete rewrite of the player part as the underlying Audio Qt object does not provide this functionality.
 

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lpr

Wed, 2022/09/21 - 00:33

maybe switch from qml/qtmultimedia to python/python3-gst as you are already using python and the app would remain noarch...

it would look like:
equa = Gst.ElementFactory.make('equalizer-10bands')
equa.set_property('band2', 3.0)
# Create playbin and add the custom audio sink to it
playbin.set_property('audio_filter', equa)
# start play back and listed to events
playbin.set_state(Gst.State.PLAYING)

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Mick

Wed, 2022/08/24 - 21:03

No worries. Still an excellent app as it is already.

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Bsingleto

Mon, 2022/07/11 - 05:42

Did this install 5 separate times and dates now, still a blank white screen. I dont know why its at the top of updates list if its still not loading to anything. *shrugs*

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Mon, 2022/07/11 - 09:13

I would guess ths could be because nobody else has encouneterd the issue.
Feel free to post your bug report to the forum and I try to look into it:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/music-explorer-from-openrepos/11935

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Mick

Wed, 2022/07/06 - 00:31

Great app so far. Would be even better if it could play from folders too.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Wed, 2022/07/06 - 20:57

Music Explorer can't play from arbitrary folders at the moment but (using the command line) you can easily create a playlist from a folder which the app then should be able to load.

e.g.

find ~/Music/albums/metallica/Load/*.mp3 | sort >~/Music/playlists/Load.m3u
 

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Mick

Thu, 2022/07/07 - 07:03

Thanks for the tip.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Thu, 2022/07/07 - 11:53

You're welcome.
Newest version (>0.35) of Music Explorer should let you select folders directly so this work around sould not be needed any more. 

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PamNor

Sun, 2022/06/26 - 19:21

It's working now. Thanks.

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PamNor

Sat, 2022/06/18 - 15:50

I would like to have the possible too select albums with downloaded media's in settings. Is it possible? Start page items: None, Random tracks, Random artists, Downloaded Albums (tracs/media).

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Fri, 2022/06/24 - 00:25

I've added this in version 0.18

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PamNor

Fri, 2022/06/24 - 16:26

I see the settings but no tracks in start page. After app restart the start page is empty.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Fri, 2022/06/24 - 21:06

May be an issue with the cache or something. Have you tried it again after downloading an audio file with the newerst version and restarting the app if at least this one shows up?

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PamNor

Thu, 2022/06/16 - 23:11

In the settings it would be nice to select a different download folder (sd-card). And again. You have done an excellent job with this useful app.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Fri, 2022/06/17 - 13:26

Yes, good idea. In the meantime you could check if removing the folder and replacing it with a symbolic link may work as I don't have a card to test this.

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PamNor

Thu, 2022/06/16 - 21:36

When searching for artists. It would be nice if artist matching letters could be listed. ☺. I'm sometime spelling artist wrong.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Tue, 2022/07/05 - 13:34

Search should be much more forgiving now when the artist is not spelled correctly.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Fri, 2022/06/17 - 13:28

Yes, happens to me as well. I'm afraid this may not be easily sovable due to limitations of the API.

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PamNor

Wed, 2022/06/15 - 23:50

Great app. Very useful.

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anarchy_in_the_uk

Thu, 2022/06/16 - 00:40

Thanks. Just added MPRIS controls, makes playback more convenient.