New in beta testing this week: Atom syndication feeds !
I helped finish @ercd 's summer of code project,
You will find a discrete RSS icon button () on a few pages.
If you use syndication feeds, please try these new feeds out and let me know here of any feedback you might have.
I haven’t used feeds myself in over a decade, so your input is very much appreciated !
Here are the available feeds; you’ll find the appropriate feed buttons on their corresponding pages, with more options
Of course, you’ll need to replace MY_USERNAME in those URLs.
I’m sure we will eventually expand on the current options, but as far as I know there are no specific plans at the moment. As always, a ticket would be ideal to request new features and improvements as users see fit.
More stats art is for certain, but what did you mean by filters?
By the way, the initial concept for the Fresh Releases feed did include the filters - e.g. that whatever filters you had applied in the sidebar would also be applied to the feed. I’m not sure why this was dropped, but I think it was probably too complex for a GSoC project.
+1 to including cover art in the feed, would liven it up. At the same time I don’t know if it should be a LB priority.
I’ve created LB-1690 to track improvements and feedback that I won’t get to before v1 is deployed (either they are big features missing or require a lot of testing).
Feel free to write comments there or here, I’ll keep it up to date with new feedback.
I didn’t know the fresh releases filters were part of the proposal, but I like the idea!
Similarly I didn’t know there were supposed to be sitewide statistics feeds, they are not currnetly implemented at all.
It does load for me, but I had to wait veeeeeery long (15 seconds! )* for the page to finally load.
Definitely not what we want, I’ll have a look at improving the loading speed, thanks !
*P.S: this is not sarcasm, 15 seconds load time is not OK…
Some improvements mentioned in this forum post and elsewhere are already noted down in the ticket: LB-1690
That being said, if you do find new bugs please let me know and I will squash them !
Great feature! We need more RSS feeds in our lives and less closed gardens. Every one is useful and interesting, but fresh releases is a great idea imo, thank you!!
Regarding the recs playlists, any chance to play those on a standalone player like Strawberry? I also tried mpv, but no luck.
Hi!
Not sure what situation you’re in exactly, but a couple of ideas:
by far the simplest: export the playlist as JSPF, convert is to XSPF, then import in in Strawberry then play the track either locally or streaming from a service
I don’t know exactly how, but what I was trying to achieve is to stream it locally. I saw Strawberry failed, so I tried with mpv thinking that maybe it would reach the YouTube videos that are used on the LB web app. But I see there’s no reference to those on the JSPF, so idk how/if that could be done.
Playlists in general are an interesting wrinkle. Feeds are ideal for things like news and even latest recommendations, but @allvoxman is pondering a variant of what I was trying to do — in each case we want to use the playlist as is, but in another place: they wanted it on a local player, while I wanted to share the link. The RSS feed (at least for the playlist I was working on) is ordered as a feed should be, most recent change first, but that isn’t perfect for sharing an ordered playlist.
For sending the playlist to a single local player, the ideas from @mr_monkey are things I’ll try as well. I’m guessing the web player is pulling the video URLs off the recording somehow.
For sharing the playlist with others (by putting the URL into a social of some kind), I’m not sure what to do. An RSS feed isn’t the right tool for that, but the playlist URL returns a React app whose wrapper (OpenGraph, Twitter tags, etc.), indicates a generic playlist with no indication as to content or authorship.
Mostly I’m thinking out loud and wondering if there are already answers. And this is likely not about RSS feeds at all, but this thread has said some adjacent things; if there are answers other than “bummer” then I’m happy to discuss those on a new topic.
Playing music on the LB website: we have our own music player that integrates with youtube, spotify, apple music and soundcloud. Playlist items don’t have a link to the playable track, we use these services’ search APIs to find a matching track to play. Not anything that can be easily replicated somewhere else I’m afraid.
However! We have separate tools to find a spotify/apple/soundcloud ID using a recording MBID (playlist tracks always have those; the feed event will contain a link to the recording): https://labs.api.listenbrainz.org/. If you are technologically inclined you could use that to try to automatically resolve each track to a music service of your choice (could work with strawberry+spotify for example)
Indeed for sharing with friends, the obvious solution is to share the link to the playlist on the LB website.Even non-users can play music from that page (using Youtube), with the caveat that the Youtube search is not always good.
What do you think is missing in terms of opengraph/tags on playlist page to make them better or easier to share?
I hope I didn’t completely miss the point
I had not thought of the playlist feeds as a way to play the actual music, but this is an interesting topic.
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