[RELEASE] mFlow (UK free streaming music service/Spotify alternative)

t0mm0 · 2011-05-08 12:26

proteusplum Wrote:Thanks to T0mm0 for his help. I've made a new version 0.2 with his changes plus some further ones to try and give working "play all" functionality in the fashion you'd expect. Very much a beta build as I haven't had a lot of time to test extensively. Any feedback appreciated.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1570345/mflow-0.2.zip

thanks! nearly there! albums play without stopping now, as long as you don't navigate around to another album.....

also here is a small patch which fixes a crash when you search for an artist and there are no albums but there are tracks:

Code:

diff -ur plugin.audio.mflow.old/resources/lib/mflowworker.py plugin.audio.mflow/resources/lib/mflowworker.py

--- plugin.audio.mflow.old/resources/lib/mflowworker.py    2011-05-08 08:53:28.000000000 +0100

+++ plugin.audio.mflow/resources/lib/mflowworker.py    2011-05-08 10:39:04.680085218 +0100

@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@

     def mflowartistview(self,name):

+        albums = []

+        tracks = []

         result=self.mflowartistget(name)

         if result['Artist']["AlbumsTotal"]>0:

             albums=result['Artist']["Albums"]

thanks,

t0mm0

dallasnights · 2011-05-08 15:58

Works great on ATV2 so far thank you!

PS I am in the USA too

procrastinator · 2011-05-08 20:22

I've just been playing around with this plugin a bit more. On the whole it's working fine. There is just one thing though: when I'm browsing the tracks of an album the artwork that's displayed for each track is totally wrong. If I select a track and play it then the "now playing" artwork is correct. The artwork that is displayed for each track while browsing in the list view relates to the first search I did. That search was "blur", and now the tracks of every album/artist display artwork which relates to blur (only while browsing, playback gives the correct artwork)

Here's a debug log of the latest example http://pastebin.com/sbBscZrN
and what I did:
1. open muzu.tv plugin
2. search "dandy"
3. select "The Dandy Warhols" from the search results
4. select the best of album (tracks then display with artwork as described above)
5. select the first track to play
6. exit plugin and XBMC

proteusplum · 2011-05-08 22:28

Procrastinator, you're absolutely right, another bug which I have hopefully squashed.... I've just posted a new version which hopefully fixes the cover art bug and improves play all handling, so please upgrade and let me know if it helps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1570345/mflow-0-3.zip

Thanks also to everyone who has said positive things about the plugin and used my referral link http://beta.mflow.com/signup?invitecode=8GNXIH to register with mflow (free to do, gives us both a £1 of credit to buy songs and lets you use the social features of mflow and create playlists).

proteusplum · 2011-05-08 22:32

PS - will be away on holiday as of tomorrow for a week, just in case anyone thinks I have abandoned the thread Smile

procrastinator · 2011-05-08 23:18

Just gave 0.3 a try, and it certainly seems to have got rid of the artwork bug. Cheers!

BTW I did sign up using the link that you've provided, but I didn't get £1 added to my account. I hope you got one in yours. I might fire off an e-mail and try and find out what's happened later this week.

Thanks again. Have a good holiday!

proteusplum · 2011-05-08 23:27

Hmm.. sorry to hear you didn't get your credit procrastinator.

Just checked and the page with the referrer URL says "For every friend who joins mflow we'll give you both £1.00 in mflow credit.", so would be worth e-mailing them about that.

procrastinator · 2011-05-08 23:38

To be honest I'm not that bothered about it for myself. It's just a nice little way of saying thank you - and if enough people download your addon it could become quite a big way of saying thank you Wink

pred · 2011-05-15 12:08

Wait!
I've a german IP and can listen songs on the website without registration. But i can't register (because of my ip).
Will this XBMC Addon work for me?

It it already available in the official Addon-Repository?
Can it scrobble to last.fm with the buildin xbmc scrobbler?

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Edit:
Strange, i really could register with my german ip via the sign up on main page.
I only got the message, that i can't sign up with my german ip, once when i tried to sign up with your invite code.

proteusplum · 2011-05-15 13:15

pred Wrote:Wait!
I've a german IP and can listen songs on the website without registration. But i can't register (because of my ip).
Will this XBMC Addon work for me?

It it already available in the official Addon-Repository?
Can it scrobble to last.fm with the buildin xbmc scrobbler?

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Edit:
Strange, i really could register with my german ip via the sign up on main page.
I only got the message, that i can't sign up with my german ip, once when i tried to sign up with your invite code.

Feedback from other users suggests that they have had success using the plugin from outside the UK. The plugin uses mflow's own api to access the music, so I can only presume it is working as intended until such time as they restrict access further.

The plugin's not in the official repo as yet.

I don't know for sure whether the last.fm scrobbler works, but my guess is that it should work fine as the tracks are ultimately being played by xbmc's builtin player in the same way they would if they were in your own library. Let me know if you have any problems.

I'll hopefully get a new version of the plugin up in the next day or so with the ability to "flow" tracks.

Cheers

dallasnights Fan Posts: 502 Joined: Jan 2011 Reputation: 0	2011-05-08 15:58 Post: #12 Works great on ATV2 so far thank you! PS I am in the USA too (This post was last modified: 2011-05-08 16:09 by dallasnights.)
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proteusplum Junior Member Posts: 22 Joined: May 2011 Reputation: 2	2011-05-08 22:32 Post: #15 PS - will be away on holiday as of tomorrow for a week, just in case anyone thinks I have abandoned the thread
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procrastinator Fan Posts: 446 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 4 Location: UK	2011-05-08 23:18 Post: #16 Just gave 0.3 a try, and it certainly seems to have got rid of the artwork bug. Cheers! BTW I did sign up using the link that you've provided, but I didn't get £1 added to my account. I hope you got one in yours. I might fire off an e-mail and try and find out what's happened later this week. Thanks again. Have a good holiday!
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proteusplum Junior Member Posts: 22 Joined: May 2011 Reputation: 2	2011-05-08 23:27 Post: #17 Hmm.. sorry to hear you didn't get your credit procrastinator. Just checked and the page with the referrer URL says "For every friend who joins mflow we'll give you both £1.00 in mflow credit.", so would be worth e-mailing them about that.
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procrastinator Fan Posts: 446 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 4 Location: UK	2011-05-08 23:38 Post: #18 To be honest I'm not that bothered about it for myself. It's just a nice little way of saying thank you - and if enough people download your addon it could become quite a big way of saying thank you (This post was last modified: 2011-05-08 23:41 by procrastinator.)
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