Music Explorer

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.

Fri, 2023/07/28 - 10:09

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

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.

Thu, 2023/06/22 - 10:16

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

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! ^^

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

Malakay

Sat, 2022/11/19 - 00:28

Crashes on 3.4.0.24 :(

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

Sun, 2022/07/17 - 14:00

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

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.

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)

Wed, 2022/08/24 - 21:03

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

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*

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

Wed, 2022/07/06 - 00:31

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

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

Thu, 2022/07/07 - 07:03

Thanks for the tip.

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.

Sun, 2022/06/26 - 19:21

It's working now. Thanks.

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).

Fri, 2022/06/24 - 00:25

I've added this in version 0.18

Fri, 2022/06/24 - 16:26

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

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?

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.

Fri, 2022/06/17 - 13:26