Music Library App: An Introduction
SailDev has been working very hard on a new app for Sailfish, and while it’s still not completely finished yet, he wanted us to put a video up so you could get a better idea of what the app has in store for us.
Here’s a quote from the developer on the specifics of the Music Library app:
This application has nothing to do with Spotify, Last.FM, TuneIn or any
other similar application. It’s unique and created by me, Saildev.
Basic functions introduced in video:
– Search artists by the part of their name and sort them either by
familiarity or hotness in descending order. [much, much more sort
and order types are coming later…]
– Get the most hottest artists and songs – as well as the most familiar
artists worldwide.
So for your viewing pleasure only, here is an Introduction to “Music Library” – enjoy:
Song is “Eric Clapton – Layla [unplugged]”
Comments and feedback welcome… big thanks to SailDev and keep up the great work! 🙂
Short notice: It will include MUCH more, but this is just a short preview into it. 🙂
Looking great so far though… a suggestion I have would be maybe there is a way to link the artist name to their Wiki page – so click on the artist name in app to take you to their wiki page in the Sailfish browser? Just a thought… 😉
Actually in the same way you could maybe link with last fm or a similar site where people could immediately get more info and/or hear some music ?
Eh, all this is already possible with this one. But I just haven’t integrated it with the search results. I could click on an artist to get news, album reviews, sample songs, videos, albums and songs, biographies, blogs, links, years they’ve been active, …
Of course there will be much more advanced search filters than just band name. And sort order can be changed to a lot of different others than presented in this video.
The point of this video is simply just to show that it is not the same than Spotify, Last.FM, TuneIn or any other same kind of application that already exists. This is exclusive to Sailfish only. 😉
That sounds sweet thks for clarifying – a well rounded, all-encompassing experience! 🙂
Will the music app be able to playback flac? Or any loseless format?
Looks awesome so far- 2 Thumbs up
This music library application is not designed to be used with your music and it does not have any kind of support to play your files. The samples provided are in MP3 format.
So what does it actually do? Is it an application designed to search through and categorise your music files, once you have them locally saved them to your Jolla phone
Oh my… No. 😀
See this and maybe you understand a bit better: https://vimeo.com/74674733
I understand now!
Ok I’m also starting to understand this app more – so it’s like a “artist/music discovery” app, where you discover new popular artists and you can then find out more details about them (reviews/biography etc etc), play some music samples (but not complete songs) and other related features.
Could there be option to recognize song which is playing? Sure the will be Soundwave ported to Sailfish, but would be great if you could tap recognized song and get Musicibrary open with all information of that band. Sure musiclibrrys own, inbuilt music detection would be sweet
At the moment I can not answer to this question. I will inform about this later.
What I’ve always wanted was an option on the native music player to scroll the lyrics on the page while it is playing. There are apps that cloud store the lyrics.
Displaying lyrics will definitely be there at some point. But so far I can not tell more about it. 🙂
Maybe it’s time to port Amarok 😉
Sounds good! 🙂
Looks nice .<), that's tremendously slow in linux (for me).
Well, looks nice :). Seems as if this page has some troubles escaping html characters though :D.
Anyway, would be cool to implement something like buying tracks after searching (partner with amazon or something similar?) right out of the app.
I’m more interested in the music app though, because the ones on iOS and Android are just .. bad.
And I hope we’ll be able to access the sdcard directly and don’t have to use MTP or similar, because the MTP implementation in linux isn’t that well.
Since I work alone I assume I have no access to partner with Amazon or any other similar. But I’m still not sure what there will be but I know for sure some of them and there will be a lot of information.
Soon I will prodive some more information about the whole application – as well as video some of the new features.
Well, hi again ;-).
Amazon Store integration is in example done by the Amarok team (KDE, which I personally think is pretty neat ;-)).
Hi,
Did you see there was an extensive article (in finnish) in Helsingin Sanomat?
http://www.hs.fi/tekniikka/a1381482361938
“Jolla aims to be the Google, not Nokia, of smartphone market”
I learned an insteresting thing in the article regarding the delay in delivery of the first Jolla handset: apparently, the first chipmaker Jolla had a deal with stopped producing them, so Jolla had to turn to Qualcomm.
Can we survey the customers here how much they would want this feature included in the first batch?
Maybe it is too late for the first batch maybe not. I tweeted the link to them and they asked so they saw the tech.
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I love Sailfish OS, but I wonder about their device because it depends on many techs they include inside, camera, micro, music chipset … and a strength built quality. I hope they can make like Nokia do. 😀