[FEATURE REQUEST] - Music tracker

[DaFlowah]

Hi there,
It would be cool to have also a music tracker, so that you can see which albums you've already listened to and see when new albums get released :D

[IgnisDa]

Thats a great idea. What sources can Ryot get the music data from? For example TMDB for movies, IGDB for video games etc.

[DaFlowah]

Not sure if Last.fm, Deezer, MusicBrainz or Discogs can have valid APIs for the job and how easy they are to be integrated 🤔

[IgnisDa]

Ah alright. I will keep this in mind. Another possible solution is adding integration with Spotify, Youtube music etc and using those.

[chunned]

Thats a great idea. What sources can Ryot get the music data from? For example TMDB for movies, IGDB for video games etc.

Check out MusicBrainz, they've got a pretty robust and easy to use API

[HStep20]

You could review Maloja, as its basically a selfhosted last.fm. It doesn't do any scrobbling, but Multi-Scrobbler acts as an 'API Linker' to pull data from x, y. or z API, and push the music scrobbles to x, y, or z platform.

I could see this project evolving into a 'plugin' style system where anyone could create an integration to scrobble data out of, and into here.

[IgnisDa]

@DaFlowah Looking into this. What exactly would a music integration look like? What would you track?

[DaFlowah]

@DaFlowah Looking into this. What exactly would a music integration look like? What would you track?

Not sure about anyone else preferences, but to me it would be nice to be able to track what I've already listened to (songs, albums, EPs, etc) and, most importantly, I'd like to be able to see when the bands I like release something new.

[IgnisDa]

Note to self: Audiobookshelf has an integration for MusicBrainz that I can shamelessly port to rust.

[IgnisDa]

Hello. I plan to work on music integration for Ryot next. In relation to #203, I am a bit divided. Should I allow the search for just a single release, and then put an album (or EP) in a media group?

@DaFlowah @chunned @HStep20 I would appreciate your feedback here.

[chunned]

Should I allow the search for just a single release, and then put an album (or EP) in a media group?

That sounds good to me. I would like to be able to search for a specific release, or for an artist (media group containing all that artist's releases).

[IgnisDa]

Artist support will be a long way off since the people management code for Ryot needs a complete overhaul. I'm talking only about music here.

[chunned]

I'm kinda confused what the purpose of the media grouping for music would be then. Are you talking about grouping various editions of a single release, i.e. the way MusicBrainz uses release groups?

[IgnisDa]

A group will be an album or an EP. And the music tracker itself will allow you to look up a single track.

[DaFlowah]

Hi @IgnisDa :D
So, if I look for a song (i.e. Bohemian Rhapsody), it will pop up along with its album (A Night at the Opera)?
If so, it would be cool for me 😎

[IgnisDa]

When you look up bohemian Rhapsody, only that would show up. When you open the details, you'll see something like "Belongs to A night at the Opera". You can click on that to view the entire album (this will happen when #203 is implemented).

[DaFlowah]

When you look up bohemian Rhapsody, only that would show up. When you open the details, you'll see something like "Belongs to A night at the Opera". You can click on that to view the entire album (this will happen when #203 is implemented).

Sounds good to me 😎

[lyz-code]

It would be nice if we could also add ratings to the songs

[IgnisDa]

That should be possible, though you should be aware that I don't plan to work on music tracking RN. The quality of data from the various sources was awful, and I was discouraged.

[IgnisDa]

Note to self: look into Discogs API.

[chunned]

Note to self: look into Discogs API.

I've had pleasantly surprising results with the Discogs API in my own music tracker project. Often it's a better source of data than MusicBrainz, definitely a good idea to check it out.

[IgnisDa]

Can you share a link to that project?

[chunned]

Sure, but be warned it's quite a bit different from Ryot (and also still very rough around the edges) - Databass