I'm using 7.7. It would be nice if it worked for 7.7 because I don't see
myself upgrading my stable environment. There's not really anything in
7.8 that's a compelling feature/fix for me to upgrade.
I see no reason to update because I can always ask others to backport the
compelling changes
test, test, 1, 2.
Am 20.11.2013, 09:54 Uhr, schrieb Michael Herger s...@herger.net:
I dropped artist.jpg into an album folder for Milos Karadaglic and did a
rescan and now I have an artwork displayed. Unfortunately it isn't the
artist.jpg in the folder!!There is no jpg for the artist
Thanks for the heads up! They have removed the stream list from their
servers - our backend servers only get a 404 back.
Please try to get in touch with radioio to let them know that their
service is broken for you. I'll try to do the same through our business
contact.
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The picture picked up by the scan is a png from last.fm which was in my
Artist Artwork folder previously but definitely was not there when the
And I thought it never picked up any artwork from that folder for this
artist? If that worked, then we're fine, aren't we?
The image you're seeing
i am running LMs on a microserver under WHS 2011. the album artwork
folder path is: F:\ServerFolders\Music\Artist_Artwork. LMS is : 7.8.0 -
1381839261
Oh, this smells Windows vs. Perl issues: Perl's internal representation of
the file path probably uses forward slashes, while the Windows path
Contact Greg Walters at @radioio.com
Thanks - will see what we can do.
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i have set up a folder for artist artwork. but when i run a scan i see
that the image files appear in the folder and then disappear when the
download (for the image) is complete. I have run a scan without using
the artists artwork folder so all my artist artwork is already cached.
but as internet
Works great, and I actually prefer the bare bones HTML in any case,
Great! Is it available in the latest version of your skin yet?
since it integrates seamlessly with the GUI's look and feel (well,
except for the h4, but that's only cosmetic, and easily replaced).
Probably easier than
I had a lot more questions in my first posting. Could you please answer
them all? In particular check the server.log file, tell me how you decided
it had not started etc.
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- AlbumInfo.pm line 347 likely should be:
Code:
$args = _getAlbumFromAlbumId($request-getParam('album_id'));
You're reading that stuff very thoroughly, I must admit. Thanks!
- in one album review, I get this cover url:
incredible! scanned completed, i has found all the missing covers!!!
great plugin!!! thanks! but where are the covers saved, i can't see in
the artist folders of my nas.
What are your exact settings in LMS? If the folder doesn't exist (or is
not writable by the plugin), then it'll use a
It's this 'album review'
(http://www.allmusic.com/album/they-live-on-the-sun-mw316411) -
maybe because allmusic has no cover for it (image is
http://www.allmusic.com/images/no_image/album_300x300.png)
Thanks. That cover indeed is an exception in that real artwork would
point to an
[13-11-26 03:00:33.1603] main::main (338) Error: Failed when running
scan post-process: [Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by --
HERE in m/? -- HERE / at
/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/Discogs.pm
line 136.
Ouch... I thought I had them covered,
Ô Seasons - Katell Keineg
Ô Iesu Mawr - Katell Keineg
Brütal Römance - Mörglbl
These shouldn't cause _that_ problem (there's always issues with accented
characters :-)). The character I suspect are rather control characters
like *$%(){}[]\.
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Since my post above I've discovered that if I run SqueezePlay on my PC
and Squeeze Player on Android, using the same LMS, I can play from
Bandcamp with no problem. Then I switch back to my Squeezebox Receiver
and nothing (as described above). Strangest of all is that I've
discovered that if I
i installed the plugin and it works great from the SBS webinterface but
does nog show up on the radio or touch. Am i missing something?
It would play mixes on the same SB where you wouldn't see it? Did you look
in the My Music menu?
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of course. It seems none of the logitech i have ( 2 x radio, 1 x boom
and 1 x touch) shows the option.
So maybe the serverversion is the culprit here?
7.7.2 Synology version.
Of course it would play (from the web UI), or of course you double checked
the My Music menu?
Where did you look for
Getting a 404 on the Blender help link
Should be fixed now - thanks!
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-advanced-smartmix Most recently played (days) I understand what
it does in that a setting of 1, 2, 3 or more stops any track being
repeated in a particular mix. Or does it stop it being repeated in any
smartmix mix?
Any SmartMix. TEN's backend should deal with repetition within the same
Just skimmed your page to get an idea what it was... 433MHz
communication via Pi... just got a new Pi from a pre-Christmas sale for
cheap... hmm... interesting! Haven't run the plugin yet, but I could see
some potential here for my own use!
http://code.google.com/p/sbnetio/
Please edit the
Is it possible to turn that code off? There are a lot of tracks that I
am very happy to hear often :-)
Not 100%. But if you set that pref to 0, then tracks returned by the
mixer backend aren't filtered out any more. The mix is still given the
list of the 200 most recently played IDs at the
Not 100%. But if you set that pref to 0, then tracks returned by the
mixer backend aren't filtered out any more. The mix is still given the
list of the 200 most recently played IDs at the beginning of the
playback though. I will disable this if the setting is 0 in a next
build.
Thanks Michael,
I think the 200 most recently played tracks stops the repeats. Is it
possible to have an option to turn that off?
Well, that's exactly what I mentioned above: this filter always applies,
no matter what you set in the Most Recently played pref. And that's what
I planned to fix/change in the
Are you saying the tracks within a playlist are in the wrong order, or
the list of playlists is?
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In the Qobuz Player one cannot stream FLAC. This is possible in the
Do you mean the plugin? It sure can stream FLAC if you have the right
subscription.
Desktop only. But how does the plugin work? Does it use the desktop
stream? I guess not because my computer can be off - so no Q desktop -
If sorting playlists in alphabetical order is not a problem, then I must
be doing something wrong in the way I organize artists and their albums
in Qobuz, because I assume there must be a way to see them sorted
(artist - album would be nice) on the SQB also.
My playlists are sorted by name, as
It's driving me crazy because I feel it must be something small, and I
feel like a moron. Thank you for your patience.
Don't feel stupid. Sometimes things don't work as expected (nor as
documented :-)). I never bothered sorting those lists, as they came as I
expected them: in alphabetical
Yes, that would be much easier :) But only when the list of artists is
sorted on name on the SQBT :)
Will sort that list as well.
The newly added album in Qobuz is presented within 5 minutes in the LMS
list of playlists, but then the playlist in LMS does not sort it on
name. The sorting in
If they're still not sorted, then it's an issue in Qobuz' database or
API.
Maybe this is it: I will wait and see what happens this week.
FWIW: I've opened a ticket with Qobuz. Feel free to chime in:
https://github.com/Qobuz/api-documentation/issues/20
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Hi Michael, the last 200 played tracks doesn't appear to be affecting
mixes any longer or would that be my imagination?
TBH I think it never worked to the extent I expected it to work. And a
few weeks back TEN did some change on their end which would definitely
make it not fail: I would
1.86 is on its way:
- Sort playlists by name
- Sort favorites by name
- Group favorites by artists/albums/tracks.
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So the behaviour i am experiencing is by design?
I only can play 5 tracks and they keep repeating.
If that's what you're seeing, then no, this is not by design. Can you
check the server.log file to see whether the plugin is reporting something?
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I have text with Greg Walters as well and he says its new streaming
works for many of its listeners but an issue was found when trying to
listen via IE. I have, from day one, listened via Google Chrome and
have had no problem until the change of its streaming!. He can't figure
it out!. I
Notice that I run the plugin it directly on my SBT internal server to
avoid to have my pc turn on always in backgound.
I have not encountered problem / memory overstack, even if Michael you
seem to not support / encourage this kind of usage. Have you experienced
main issues ?
When we developed
I specified a location for Folder with artist photos but left the
Artwork Folder empty. Should it then store the artist images in the
Folder with artist photos folder?
Yes, it should. Have you checked permissions? Did you run a scan?
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Could I hook up a storage device and keep a library of flat files on the
pi too?
Sure. It can act as a fully fledged LMS server. Not as fast and powerful
as a PC, but good enough to serve a few thousand tracks and online services.
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This was working fine previously, but I've been having problems the past
3 days.
I will get the problem even if I use local music sources
The recipe is:
{
artist: [
Neil Young
],
song_type: [
acoustic
],
type: artist,
bucket: [
id:rhapsody-US,
tracks,
id:CAIXPLB1431AC7A479
]
}
This is a very
Using LMS you can transcode the streams on the fly though.
It doesn't sound easy whatever this means. Can you give us instructions
on how to do this so I can get radioio back on my boom ?
Just install LMS and connect your Boom to your own server instead of
mysb.com.
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Michael, again may be imagining it, but under
advancedsmartmixmusic sources there is an additional box, already
ticked, labelled smartmix! Is that new, and what does it do?
That's an artifact of some experimental work in an attempt to mix tunes
from Qobuz and WiMP, which are not officially
Thanks for the detailed report. I'll have to double-check my fix.
Michael
Am 30.12.13 17:19, schrieb frozzers:
mherger wrote:
Could you please confirm the plugin version you're using?
Hi Michael - I'm using v1.3.9.
Here's what happens with Spotify (I'm a Spotify premium subscriber).
If
On the PC it takes only a few seconds to display all albums from an
artist, compared to the 30 seconds on the RPI.
That's bad news, as it means that the RPI isn't up to the task of
parsing large XML data in a timely manner. Qobuz' responses come with a
lot of metadata we don't actually need.
When I request all albums from an artist, it takes arround 30 seconds to
display the list (With Ipeng HD, or web interface on PC).
Would this happen with any artist or only a few? If the latter, could
you please give me an example?
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I have made some tests and it seems to improve the response time by
adding directly the album list in the QobuzArtist sub
With these changes, the albums list is displayed within a couple of
seconds , and Qobuz is usable on the RPI.
Great job! I'll try to change this asap. Thanks a lot!
1.87 - improve Artist/Albums browse behaviour.
I didn't implement the specific artist search yet. Maybe I'll add a
preference to define whether you want to get the fastest or the most
complete response. Using the old vs. the new method for an artist with a
long album list (eg. Frank Zappa) I
1. Select 'Smooth'.
2. In TEN tab, select 'Artist' and enter e.g. Oscar Peterson ('Type' box
automatically changes to 'artist-radio').
It would not change if you entered the artist _before_ changing the
type. Tried that?
3. Delete 'calming' in 'Mood' box.
4. New mix (correctly based on
I have exactly the same problem as Mark, although sometimes I get Space
Cadet by Robyn Steward ARRAY. I'm also on a Mac with Mavericks using
Safari.
One more question: does this only happen when using the blender, or
playing a mix you edited in the blender?
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Hi Frozzer - you asked if my problem was ever resolved. Sadly it
wasn't.
Mark - I'm sorry I didn't get back to this. I just tried to figure out
what fix I applied back then, just to not find anything... Don't know
what I did, but it seems I never committed and/or released it.
I'll look
It seems that the maximum number of album returned by default is 25.
By setting the limit parameter , it s possible to increase it.
I've already done that. But that's not the problem: the search most
likely would include various artists albums on which the artist shows
up, while in the artist
I'm sorry I can't work out how to check the DNS on the server, can you
point me in the right direction please? I can't find it on the Freenas
GUI. My router says DNS is automatic from ISP.
There's a well known issue with FreeNAS and DHCP where it wouldn't set
the correct gateway or DNS
Since Qobuz is now available in Germany I started to play around with it
over Christmas. I first installed the plugin on my Pi and also found it
very sluggish - taking about half a minute to load the playlist of a
productive arstist, like described above.
Ouch... shame on me! I installed the
Or do you mean ping mySB.com from Freenas webgui?
From the FreeNAS gui or the console. And use www.mysqueezebox.com, not
mysb.com. That domain doesn't exist, we're only using it here because
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Should I enter the following address in the LMS for that update
automatically: http://www.pierrebeck.fr/SqueezeboxQobuz/repo.xml
NO! In a mail a few weeks back I explicitly told you to _remove_ that
entry should you still have it. That repository is outdated most of the
time.
Just check the
My favorites - Albums - Albumname. (in alphabetical order)
Before the Update:
My favorites - Albums - (ArtistName, Albumname). (in alphabetical
order)
This must be the change from a few weeks ago: favorites are no longer in
one flat list, but grouped by type of favorite (fav. artist, fav.
Guys can I just confirm something please? So I was able to use Spotify
on my Touch via mysqueezebox.com and as such didn't need a server, my
server broke so this was the only way I listened to music until I
switched to Qobuz, I don't seem to be able to work this via
mysqueezebox.com and have to
1.3.10 should fix the array issue.
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When I make for example Rick Waterman a favorite artist, and his album
Tales From Topographic Oceans [Expanded] a favorite in the Qobuz
player, then on SQBT server i see in favorites - artists - 15! albums
from Rick Waterman. But I just want to see Tales From Topographic
Oceans [Expanded]
I followed your intruction but I just wanted confirmation.
Not 100% ;-).
- first uninstall the existing plugin. Restart LMS if requested.
- check the Afficher tous les plugins tiers box. Restart again (if LMS
is asking you to do so).
- now you should see the latest Qobuz version in the
What I would love would be to get the same amount of songs from SM no
matter if SC is enabled or not. Is that possible or is this something
which can't be changed in SM?
The problem is that the plugin can't know what exactly SC is doing. It
would involve a lot of digging in the other's logic
The RadioIO commercial-free streams now work through My Apps on my
Logitech UE Smart Radio.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll add higher quality streams as soon as
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1) In the artist biography, display the full content and not the summary
Hmm... don't remember why exactly I decided to use the summary instead
of full content.
2) In the Artist menu, add a button Similar Artists (using the QOBUZ
API artist/getSimilarArtists which returns artist images)
3) If possible, In the artist search and in the artist favorites,
display the artist image instead of the default icon.
Here's the response I got from Qobuz' api team, after I asked for
support of the artwork in those calls:
Thank you for your feedback and insight.
We are aware of this
I've noticed many covers are missing, there is a chance to download
online missing covers without doing an other rescan?
Ahm... has nothing to do with SmartMix, does it? Maybe you're looking
for the Album and Artist Information plugin?
Whatever solution you find: you'll always need a rescan
1.90 is on its way to you:
1) In the artist biography, display the full content and not the summary
Done. Please let me know if this isn't practical due to content size.
2) In the Artist menu, add a button Similar Artists (using the QOBUZ
API artist/getSimilarArtists which returns artist
Michael- any possibility Smart Mix could support Qobuz streaming?
I did indeed investigate some time in this topic. As I've mentioned
before, only the currently supported services work reliably, because
they are available from TEN directly. Any other service such like Qobuz
or WiMP I'd have
mherger wrote:
search for ABBA
not gonna happen...
As a developer I often have to ignore personal preference. Be it out of
laziness only. Got a simpler bandname to type repeatedly while testing? :-)
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I thought I'd give the 1 week trial of Qobuz Hi-Fi a go, but I'm not
getting any sound output.
I have a recent LMS 7.8 running on a Qnap TS-412, connecting to a
Wandboard.
Please check with a real SB. It should work out of the box. If it
doesn't for the wandboard, then there's an issue with
I'm on Android and use Squeeze Commander, but pdf's can be opened using
book reader (in my case Aldiko), I think I used to have some Acrobat
Reader version once. I would think that all we need is a link to a pdf
file in cache and open it in an external app, but then I do not know
much about
there's also some content that shows up in the search results, yet is
not available for streaming.
Yes, that's a known issue. Their API only gives that information on the
track level. Thus you would eg. get albums for which the tracks are not
available. Not much I can do about this afaik.
mherger wrote:
got a simpler bandname to type repeatedly while testing? :-)
u2
can't type this single-handed without lifting the hand from its regular
position. No. ABBA is easier :-)
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Not tried it yet but I presume this can work at the same time as last.fm
scribbling?
Yes, they're totally independent.
Does it have any options to set what gets logged at all? I already
scrobble to last.FM for local music so it would be handy for this to log
non local stuff only.
No, it's
So this improves on the playlog plugin ? That does similar things ?
I only had a quick look at the playlog plugin. Yes, it sure does similar
things. But WWTT is much simpler. It does the things I wanted, the way I
wanted :-). I didn't like PlayLog's UI. PlayLog does provide some links
to
one other minor issue, occasionally i see multiple copies of the same
album in the search results. Amos Lee is an example- there are two
instances of about half his albums listed. a cursory examination shows
them to be identical.
As I said in the Smart Mix thread: Qobuz search sucks. They
thanks! seems to work. what is it proxying to?
In normal operation the player would stream directly from the source. In
proxied mode the server is streaming data from the source, re-streaming
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FLAC : disabled
Well, you've disabled flac playback - what would you expect? Set it to
Native instead.
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I never seem to get any tracks returned. I've checked the unrecognised
songs log and the only things listed are videos from my itunes library.
Please note that after an initial export of your data the processing can
take quite a while. I see that you've uploaded data of about 14k tracks.
Is
Hi Michael, a little off topic but how do I get music tracks that our
band has recorded analyzed for use in Smart Mix? I have had a good look
through TED and can see it is possible to upload but it requires a lot
of stuff that I just don't understand as it seems to be a developers
code. Is there
I've had the plugin active since before Christmas but only got round to
posting my question now so maybe there is something else I need to look
at?
Does _any_ mix fail?
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is quobuz the onlyone hd music service on squeezebox (i mean lossless,
flac ) ? is it available in italy?
There's also WiMP - a Norwegian service. But I doubt it's available in
Italy. I think it's norther EU territory, Germany being the southern
most of the supported countries.
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FLAC set to Native but still no joy.
Unfortunately there's no reset to defaults in this section (is
there?). But do you remember why you started fiddling with those
parameters to start with? Maybe you'll figure out what else you changed
to break flac streaming.
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I have the WWTT working on the web interface and iPeng 7 (both iPhone
and iPad), but it does not work on either of my Touches, my Controller
or my Radio.
Would it show up if you restarted the devices? Are they connected to the
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neither qobuz is available,i'm trying to subscribe but it says i
can't!!!
Same here in Switzerland. Though Qobuz say they were planning to expand.
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I can stream by own FLAC files without problem.
I'm on a one month trial but it says in my account I have access to
Qobuz Premium service until 26 January 2014.
You never said how it actually failed. Do you get any error message on
the players? You might want to remove the server.prefs file to
I have now found out Qobuz Premium is 320kbps streaming and Qobuz Hi-Fi
is FLAC CD quality streaming. As I think I said earlier I was on the
Premium 30 day trial but have now upgraded and started another 30 days
on Hi-Fi. Sorry if I have wasted some of your time but at least I had
the correct
I personally only want one more thing: name of the player somewhere in
the logtext. Maybe a candidate for the consider list?
Yeah, that's actually something I've been planning from the beginning.
Most of the time I don't care what is being played on the kids' player :-).
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Please check the other threads on this topic. We're working on it.
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I ran a search of this thread, but couldn't find any hits that answered
this question#8230;hope it hasn't been asked and answered 100 times
already: the screenshot of the blender on your webpage shows an option
to play the mix as a static playlist, but when I pull up the blender, it
only gives me
i'm new on this forum and also newbie for using LMS. As Zizione, i also
configured the decoding of flac to pcm on ther server. With my own flac
in my library, there is no problem. But when using Qobuz with my Hifi
subscription, i have exactly the same error as Zizione.
Just enable native flac
I have flac to flac set as native and still got the same error as zizone
and crispiyux are reporting. I'm using Squeezelite that is supposed to
handle flac natively.
Hmm... not sure. Triode might know better. Did you ask him?
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I had the Qobuz Plugin version 1.90 installed. I saw now, that on
Pierre's page, version 1.85 is the newest version.
Pierre's page often is outdated. Don't use that repository any more.
Did you by any chance disable native flac playback and have LMS
transcode flac to pcm on the server? This
Would it be possible for you guys to sort search results?
Dean used to say: It's software - anything can be done. But somebody
has to do it. My resources are very limited. This is something I'd
expect a service to do (their search in their desktop app is similarly
poor imho).
You could
Maybe I missed this before...it seems I can't skip forward and backward
in a track. This works on other streaming services. Is this a known
problem (and fixable) or is it something to do with my setup?
I _think_ it might be a limitation of flac online streaming. I'm not
100% sure, but it might
Thanks for trying this. So far it seems the sorting is still broken. I
Broken as in searching for abba wouldn't list it at the top of the
search results?
could not find the server.log yet, but will search for it and try to
find the module message.
Check the web UI, Settings/Information.
What OS are you using?
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Argh... that nice build script didn't include the added lib folder.
1.101 should be out shortly. Thanks for the heads up!
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Just tried the new searching algorithm, it worked one time but on two
other tests the squeezebox server stopped answering (for any request or
menu option had to stop it and launch it again)
(Running it on Synology NAS DSM 4.3 in version 7.8)
What kind of CPU is this NAS using? I think the
Sorry to complain, but could you put in a little on/off switch for now?
My Raspberry Pi is taking a long time searching now, and the results
don't really seem any better than before, just different, so I'd like to
turn the new algorithm off for now to make Qobuz more useable...
I'm sorry to
I have successfully installed Qubuz on the server (Mac OSX v. 7.7.3) but
the plugin doesn't appear in the Squeezebox Touch menu. How do I install
it?
Sometimes the devices need an additional kick to re-load the full menu.
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If I enter a search term in Triodes Spotify app on my LMS then I get a
pretty accurate list of results.
Understood. Unfortuantely Qobuz' search is poor. Even in their own
application. I cannot fix this. I can only try to massage the poor
results to make them a bit less poor. But this goes at
Ok, next try. v1.111 comes with tweaks for both performance and quality
of the search results. Plus an option to turn the magic off to maximize
speed on slow servers.
In many cases you should get a much shorter list of results. But please
note that if you want to find all tracks by artist
501 - 600 of 8512 matches
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