For the past few months I have been working on upgrading Listenbrainz Cli Tools to use a SQLite database, and now that the (release) dust as settled, time for a community annoucement!
The caching system as been completely redone using SQLite, which brings better performance, less used disk space, and most importantly, easier development.
A new command has been introduced, which allows you to see what your favorite Monstercat releases of this year are, and have an easier time voting for this yearās Best of 2024!
Note: Plenty of releases are missing from Musicbrainz still. So go add them/map your listens. The command checks for the labels āMonstercatā, āMonstercat Instinctā, āMonstercat Uncagedā and " Monstercat Silk".
This command is under the āunstableā command. Unstable commands are commands which are either buggy, unpolished, need user testing, or too hardcoded. The plan being to finish them later, while still letting users experiment with them.
Some things were changed during the migration:
- The work stats do not recurse anymore. Next update I plan to add a new command to restore the previous behaviour.
- The underrated radio has been temporary disabled, as listenbrainz is still broken, and updating it without testing will lead to bugs (and Iām lazy. This update is long overdue already)
- The listen mapper wasnāt upgraded, as Iām not still certain if Iām keeping it or it will be replaced by another way to map listens.
- Importing data dumps is disabled due to the new importer not providing MBID mapping anymore.
Lastly, new name! Itās more like it has a proper name nowā¦
Iāll try to only use one topic (this one) to bring updates on the app. So subscribe if you are interested
I havenāt touched a mac in my life so not that sure if itās possible but:
Open a terminal in the folder where you put the file, so if you put it into your download folder, right click, open in terminal(?).
Or you can open your terminal, put cd <full path of your folder>, aka something like cd /home/rustynova/download
Then you can simply use alitral by typing alistral-macos <command>
The list of commands are here, or you can add --help to get a list of commands
And tip: rename alistral-macos to alistral to make it shorter to type~
Oh and good luck. 140000 listens must be a lot of recording to fetchā¦ And the app is limited to one recording/second. My puny 25k already takes an hour to get only the recordings
Radios: You can now restrict the seed listens to a shorter period with the --seed-listen-range argument. This will only use seed listens from this period. There is also --min-seed-listens to keep a minimum of listens (default 3) from before the period if there is not enough
Changes:
lookup now refresh the recording. So if you know thereās changes on the data, you can use lookup to refresh it
lookup: Overdue score is now from 0. 1 now means that the recording is overdue. Fixes weird behaviours with bumps
