Hi all!
v1.1.0 is here!
There are streaming link buttons for the releases that have streaming links in MB! For now, Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Qobuz…
Best, Gyorgy
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A small update on the MusicBrainz Release Viewer: I’ve just pushed v1.2.0.
The main change is experimenting with new classical-friendly tracklist layout. The viewer now tries to recognise multi-movement works directly from the track titles and groups them accordingly: the work title appears once, with the movements listed beneath it. The idea was simply to get closer to how classical albums are usually presented in CD booklets.
Importantly, this happens without extra API calls and it leaves non-classical releases completely untouched.
The next step — already on the workbench — is displaying the composer header based on work relationships, which should make the structure even clearer for classical releases.
Still experimenting a bit, but it’s already surprisingly nice to browse classical albums this way. Feedback and odd edge cases are very welcome!
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v1.2.1
A new, experimental feature: click on any artist in the track details → a new, inline artist-info-page appears:
- personal data
- wiki excerpt with a link to the Wikipedia page of the artist
- Discograpy!!! (experimental)
Things to do:
- Displaying the composer header for classical releases is still in the works.
- I am thinking about removing the “Recordings” tab and include the tech credits to the track-details.
- Other option: change the “recordings” tab to “artist” tab and use it instead of the inline info-page
Feedback is welcome!
— György
v1.3.0
- refined the ARTIST popup panel, now the full discography is scrollable
- reorganized tabs:
- the tech credits from the former Recordings tab was moved to the main, tracklist view to the 3rd column of the track details
- Recordings tab was renamed to Versions tab and shows all other release versions of the same release group
- 2 new block under the tracks: release-level credits and annotations
- managed to keep the clean design…
Feedback welcome!!!
Best, Gyorgy
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Hi again
I’ve had an idea as to where I can make use of your nice interface. I have a spreadsheet of my music collection and with a quick tweak of a formula I now can view my releases with your nice pages.
Playing with it today I have two small requests:
1\ In the text at the top with date, country, label, barcode. Why is the Label not clickable?
2\ I see you have the Digital Shop links to spotify, etc. A link I’d love to see added is one to Discogs.
I have a foot in both databases and am often flipping between them.
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Hi @IvanDobsky,
I am extremely happy to hear that you consider using my interface!
Thanks for the suggestions! Both are implemented now.
- the Label field now links directly to the corresponding MusicBrainz label page;
- if a release has a Discogs URL relationship in MusicBrainz, a Discogs button is shown alongside the other external links.
As with the rest of the viewer, I don’t try to guess external links—the button only appears when the relationship is actually present in MusicBrainz.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Best, Gyorgy
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Thanks. That’s really useful. I like clicking on the interconnected links around my music. All the other people who produce the music, and your interface is such a clean way to display this.
I use the KODI media player as my main music system. Now on my TODO list is to hack the skin to add your release viewer page to it in some way.
A big bonus of this page is the links are real. When trying to read artists out of the tags of a FLAC file it is too easy to get confused as which “Ian Curtis” is being referred to as the Writers, Performers, Producers don’t have MBID’s. Only the main Song\Album Artists have MBIDs. So no Media player can really tell these artists apart when names are shared. Your page solves that puzzle by going to the source.
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I am happy to hear that!
I always had the same idea deep in my mind to somehow put my viewer together with a player…
The iOS app version for e.g. recognises and displays the release played by Apple Music, but it is just a small goodie…
So If you happen to merge KODI with MB Release Viewer interface, please show me the results!!! It is a fantastic perspective!
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I don’t really have the skills to do a real job. I can’t write the code, but sometimes can hack a few lines into place. I’d love to fully merge the KODI skin with this interface - an impossible dream.
What I am likely to do is hack a menu item onto an album page. Or maybe a button if I can work out how to get the Album and\or Now Playing MBID out to the skin. I think the web interface is the most obvious place for me to sneak this into. From there I can launch your Release Viewer and have it sitting in the same browser as the player.
I promise if I manage to make any of this happen I’ll bring back some screen shots of it in use. Hacked code if people want to try it.
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