Maybe it would be good if the inotify bubble could also show the image of the currently playing song (album cover for example?).
Yeah, that would be nice. In keeping things simple, I don't get any info about upcoming songs, only the currently playing song. So the song starts, then I fetch the cover. If I use the cover image for libnotify, I'd have to delay the bubble till the cover is fetched, rather than display it as soon as possible. This is probably only 1-3 seconds, but the right decision isn't clear to me.
What do you guys think?
Also, in the mini mode, I don't know if I should include the toolbar or not. Please let me know what you think about that as well.
]]>arutha1979: I'd like to add more tag-related functions. I haven't yet figured out the best way to do so while keeping the interface simple -- I don't tag tracks or use playlists myself, so it's harder for me to determine the best way to deal with those things. I'll take a look at the official client, since you said it was easy there.
In other news, the latest version has volume control! It's just a slider, and it's currently inaccurate due to a bug in shell-fm-git, but it does allow you to lower the volume.
There's also a new minimal view mode. It basically only shows the playback control buttons, as the title and artist are already displayed in the window titlebar.
EDIT: Volume control is fixed now, it WAS NOT shell-fm's fault, it was MY FAULT. Sorry.
]]>But I do miss some functionality. The original last.fm client allows tagging of currently playing songs. And it makes it easy. It shows your own tags and the most popular tags by the last.fm community. Tagging is as easy as clicking the tags you want to give the song or typing a new one if a certain tag does not exist. Could you add this functionality?
Another tag-related feature I really like in the original client is playing personal tag radio. More precisely, only play the songs you yourself tagged, for example, as rock. Is it possible to add such radio? (I don't know whether you have to be a subscriber to listen to personal tag radio)
Finally, a minor GUI related question. Maybe it would be good if the inotify bubble could also show the image of the currently playing song (album cover for example?).
P.S. I don't mind the lack of volume control. I set the volume via a global shortcut in the ubuntu keyboard shortcuts. I almost never touch application volume controls.
]]>No volume control yet. I ran into a shell-fm bug, and the keybindings done so far are global, I don't know how to do local ones.
]]>Really, just choose keys you like, and people will adapt. Or, you can always allow people to specify their own keybindings in a config if you ever have your own config file.
What notification are you thinking of? Because I thought a simple slider would be great.
]]>On current status,
I've solved the critical problem mentioned in the first post in my local code. If I can quit clobbering the shell-fm config and get the venues' names it might be ready for the AUR.
I decided that I'll add volume control if I can do it without adding clutter to the interface. Is there a keybinding people would like to use for this? '-' and '='? If so, should a notification be triggered to show the volume change?
]]>scrobbling is really just using a url, at least that's how it's done wtih a bash script I found.
]]>I think you shouldn't rely on system-wide per-application volume management. Currently, it is provided only by PulseAudio and most people either use ALSA or hate PulseAudio with a passion.
OSS also provides per-application volume control. I really don't think it should be there, but I'll consider adding it if chipmunk ever has a substantial user base, and the majority of users want it.
I just pushed a very large update. Unfortunately the critical bug remains and I have no idea how to fix it. On the upside, you can now smoothly access lyrics, artist info, track info (if there), and artists' events. The events is a bit slow, and doesn't give the venue name, but that will change. Either I'll figure that out with pylast (which only seems to provide event IDs currently) or I'll replace pylast in this instance with some good old fashioned xml parsing.
Please go ahead and update if you're interested in the project.
Enjoy.
EDIT: Screenshot Gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dK … directlink
]]>The stop after track and switch after track are already there, and were a major motivation for starting this project in the first place. There is no plain "Stop" button. If you hit the button with the Stop icon while a song is playing, it will queue the action "Stop." If you choose a station while a song is playing, a dialog will ask if you want to wait until the current track finishes before switching.
One big thing I noticed is it wasn't notifying my last.fm account of the songs I had listened to.
Oh no! You're right! This was working before, but now it's not. The scrobbling should be done by shell-fm. I'm installing shell-fm-git now to see if that fixes it...
yes. relief.
OK so I recommend installing shell-fm-git, I guess I'll change the dependency in the pkgbuild next time I repackage (when I background processes correctly). Sorry about the oversight.
]]>The lyrics looks much better, but the amount of real estate it gets is pretty small.
Oh, I didn't know about the stop after track and switch after track features. Has this already been implemented? How do I activate it? Or is it a work in progress?
One big thing I noticed is it wasn't notifying my last.fm account of the songs I had listened to. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but I assume you'd want to update your last.fm account of the songs you just listened too. So I would urge you to at least make it an option.
]]>I'm keeping the pkgbuild and Chipmunk versions at 0.0.9 until I have something AUR-worthy, so just get the pkgbuild the same way as described in the first post, reinstall, and enjoy integrated lyrics!
]]>Some of the icons seem to be missing, such as genre/station, Library, and Neighbor. It seems certain tags don't show up too.
I'd like to just use icons from the user's theme, but I don't know which ones I can depend on people having. I made guesses based on my current icon theme (buuf). Here are the ones I use - if anyone has replacement suggestions I'll gladly switch them:
appointment-missed - Cancel the Queued Task
appointment-new - Add a Queued Task
audio-input-microphone - Artist Station
audio-volume-high
audio-volume-low
audio-volume-medium
audio-volume-muted
bookmark-new - Bookmark this Station
bottom - Hide Menubar
chipmunk-radio - Main App (should be provided if not present in theme)
contact-new - Befriend User (currently unused)
dialog-password - Login Stuff
document-save - Save this Track to Disk (currently unused)
edit-find - Discovery Mode
emblem-favorite - Love this Track
emblem-shared - Share this Track
emblem-sound - Library/Personal Station
emblem-unreadable - Ban this Track
emblem-web - Launch Generic Website (currently unused)
face-plain - Mini Mode
face-wink - Recommendations Station
gnome-mime-text-x-python - Launch Chipmunk Development Website
go-next - Indicates the Next (Queued) Task
list-add - New Station
list-remove - Remove this Station from Bookmarks
media-optical - Blank Album Cover
media-playback-pause - Pause
media-playback-start - Play
media-playback-stop - Stop After this Track
media-record - Turn Scrobbling on/off
media-skip-forward - Skip this Track
stock_insert-note - Tag this Track (currently unused)
system-users - Group Station, Neighborhood Station
tomboy - Tag Station
user-available - User
view-refresh - Keep Window Shrunk
view-restore - Shrink Window
window-close - Cancel New Station (on toolbar)
On a failed login, you should let the user know that it didn't work.
Yes, I should. I'd like to. I don't know how. I hope to have the login feedback improved eventually, but I'm considering it a low priority for now since it only happens once. If anyone wants to look at this in chipmunk-radio.py, find "def login" - there are a few.
I'm not sure how hard this would be, but having the ability to adjust volume would be great too.
I don't like it when media players have their own volume controls. If I want per-application control, I can use a centralized and consistent method. Currently I use gnome-media-pulse for that purpose, and I'm hoping for docky integration with pulse audio in the future. gnome-volume-control -p "applications" will open directly to the application tab for those interested.
I like the lyrics look-up feature. I would've implemented it differently though. Instead of opening in a new tab of browser, I would've had it open in a pane and use lyrics from sing365 or somewhere.
Yes, this is a quick and easy method for right now, but I plan to fully integrate the lyrics in future versions. I think I'll add an expander between the track info and the playback controls, and probably a set of tabs within that expander to show various parsed info. But that's for after a stable 0.1. If anyone knows of a decent lyrics parsing library already out there, please post here and I'll get on it a little sooner.
I think notifications of song change should be optional, and thus an optional dependency.
That seems reasonable. The only thing that makes me hesitate to do that is that the notifications are also used to clarify some functions, like Stop After Track, Switch After Track, and give some (poor) login feedback. Let me know if you still think it should be optional, and I'll change it.
Thanks again for the feedback, and I hope you enjoy Chipmunk!
]]>Some of the icons seem to be missing, such as genre/station, Library, and Neighbor. I don't know if I'm just missing icons, or if you provide them on your own. It seems certain tags don't show up too.
On a failed login, you should let the user know that it didn't work. I've got multiple passwords, and I wasn't sure if it was just taking a long time or if I put the wrong password in or what. It's just a convenience to have.
I'm not sure how hard this would be, but having the ability to adjust volume would be great too.
I like the lyrics look-up feature. I would've implemented it differently though. Instead of opening in a new tab of browser, I would've had it open in a pane and use lyrics from sing365 or somewhere. Somehow parse it so it only shows the lyrics.
I think notifications of song change should be optional, and thus an optional dependency.
If I have any other thoughts, I'll let you know.
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