| Issue 55: | smart radiostation field parsing | |
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This is a suggestion for an enhancement. It would be great if the radio station field could automatically guess what you mean if you enter something that does not start with lastfm:// in the radiostation box. Examples: "jazz" -> "lastfm://globaltags/jazz" "jimi hendrix" -> "lastfm://artist/jimi+hendrix" One way it could be implemented would be to execute a google search restricted to lastfm: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Alast.fm+%22jimi+hendrix%22 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Alast.fm+%22jazz%22 The urls of the search results tell whether it is a tag or an artist. TheLastRipper could just pick the first result or present the user with a choice. |
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Aug 21, 2007
I'm pretty sure that Last.fm has some API's to do this... It might be implemented in a future version... But definitively a great idea... I guess it could be implemented the same way Last-Exit has implemented it...
Status: Wishlist
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement |
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Oct 04, 2007
Perhaps you could use the audioscrobbler webservices to achieve this... You could request "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/jazz/similar.xml" based on whether it gives a 404 or if the xml is really short then you can guess if it a tag or an artist. Compare these examples: Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/jazz/similar.xml Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/rock/similar.xml Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/pop/similar.xml Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/60s/similar.xml Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/zimbabwe/similar.xml Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/nujazz/similar.xml Artist: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/metallica/similar.xml Artist: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/laila+kinnunen/similar.xml Artist: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/erik+sumo/similar.xml Artist: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/stateless/similar.xml I think you can determine whether it is a tag or an artist by using the following rules to interpret the result of http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/.... : * 404 error: it is a tag * streamable=0: it is a tag * number of artists in xml less than e.g. 5: it is a tag * otherwise it is an artist. ----- Some other suggestions: You could also prefill the dropdown with the most popular tags: Tag: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/tag/toptags.xml if text in the radiostation field matches one of the popular tags then you could avoid making a request to check if the user is thinking of an artist. Same thing with most popular artists. Also if the text matches one of the folder names in the download directory ... then it is an artist. |
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