Music player (classical music)

[Jan]

A few screenshots of my music player…

My player allows me to search CDs, individual movements as well as online music. The search functions use regular expressions and dropdown menus and return only relevant results.

Clicking on a CD opens the CD’s tiddler.

Clicking on the image shows the album cover at full size.

The Movements search function allows individual movements to be found by attributes relevant for classical music: work type, key, id (e.g., BWV 1012), instruments, etc.

If the “Show what is playing” checkbox (at the top of the sidebar) is checked, the player pops up a window that allows me to see what is currently playing from a distance.

Google Cast support lets me stream music to any Chromecast-enabled device — whether a hifi amplifier with Chromecast Audio or loudspeakers with built-in Chromecast. As a bonus, the music also appears in the app of the loudspeakers.

Finally, my player also allows for embedding online music.

[well-noted]

Any chance we could get a demo site? I’d love to play around with this.

[Sunny]

Thanks @Jan for showing the screenshots.
That’s very impressive.

[Jan]

Unfortunately not. I can’t put the player online, since making the music (ripped CDs) publicly available would be illegal because of copyright restrictions.

[Thomas_Chuffart]

Maybe you could publish an empty version with some open source tracks…my 2 cents…

[AlfieA]

A lot of work must have gone into this. The result is an appealing layout, design and application.

[Jan]

I’m considering publishing all the code of an empty player. A user manual would then be very helpful though, which may take a while to write: the player relies on several conventions, the structure of the music tiddlers as well as the procedure for adding music need to be understood, etc.

[Sunny]

Hello @Jan
that would be great, just what my original post was requesting.
Thank you.

[gavcloud]

really really cool. speaks to my interests in both music and wikis

[TiddlyTitch]

@Jan

I’m considering publishing all the code of an empty player. A user manual would then be very helpful though, which may take a while to write: the player relies on several conventions, the structure of the music tiddlers as well as the procedure for adding music need to be understood, etc.

Right!

Often to use a TW like you are there may be some wordy segues needed to explain how to emulate your beautiful achievement.

Likely, at least, how to …

• ‘rip’ a CD to audio files
• link to those files from a TW
• set up a player in TW
  etc …
• … and more

Could well be of great interest!
But I do see it is a lot of work.

Just a comment, best, TT