Thankyou so much for the thoughtful response! I am not composing my email in an appropriate MUA so please bear with my response style.
Indeed, i was speaking of the general loved station as a seed for bootstrapping my playlist. But really, perhaps an even better seed would be a default 'everything in inventory' playlist. I am not surprised about the lack of tags for non-free stuff. It seems like there is a project to be had with that, ala' (or extending) cddb. I figured out that the rhythmbox implementation was not under your direct control, it also has some significantly annoying bugs that i will probably have to dig into myself. i usually skip rhythmbox and go straight to installing VLS, but i wanted to give it a go this time. I am glad i did, it works well enuf for my needs, but now i have more needs. :-) And thank you so very, very much for creating that need!!! this is a marvelous thing.open source music on an open source recommendation engine. I want to talk to my fellow bandmembers about getting out tracks on it, but i have to be sure that they dont have any conflicting ideas about licensing (ie: "Our music is worth BEELLIONS!"). I really doubt they would have a problem, but it's a question that needs asking. tnx! johnu On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Mike Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 10:42 -0700, John Utz wrote: > > > So i have logged in and it's asking me to create a radio station and > > all of those options dont have any data for me to choose from, they > > are blank. > > > so i picked based on artist and typed in 'orbital'. > > > no songs are showing up. > > Our artist radio stations are dependant on the user supplied tags for > that artist (so we can determine which free artists have similar music), > unfortunately we don't have tag data for a lot of non-free artists at > the moment. You can help us with that by tagging your favourite artists > through the website, simply click the "Tag" link in the top right corner > of an artist's profile. e.g. > > http://libre.fm/artist/Orbital/tag > > > > i *like* what i am hearing by using the webplayer and picking 'loved'. > > but that isnt available to me in what i see in rhythmbox. > > To listen to your own Loved station you can select either "Tracks Loved > by User: " and enter your username, or if you press the little plus next > to "Libre.fm" in the Rhythmbox sidebar there are a few default stations, > "My Library" acts exactly like your loved stations for libre.fm. > > That'll just give you access to your personal loved tracks, if you meant > that you like listening to the community loved station on the webplayer > then unfortunately Rhythmbox doesn't support tuning to that; the > community loved station is something that only GNU FM offers, and > Rhythmbox tries to keep compatibility with Last.fm as well in the same > plugin. Although I've just realised that we could create a fake group > station that offers this functionality through the group radio URIs, > I'll see about implementing that later today. > > > what am i missing? is this an unmet need in the development todo list > > that needs some cycles to get implemented? > > We don't actually have anything much to do with the Libre.fm support in > Rhythmbox, that's all handled by the Rhythmbox developers themselves, so > you might want to get in touch with them about specific improvements to > that side of things (although we're naturally happy to offer any help > from our side that's needed). > > Cheers, > Mike. > >
