Comments on: Playing with Playdar

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Rewriting Playdar: C++ to Erlang, massive savings | Weez.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:59:55 +0000

[...] should read this blog post about Playdar, by Paul Lamere, and take a look at the Playdar [...]

By: zazi

zazi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:56:35 +0000

All in all, Playdar seems really interesting. Nevertheless, there is still the old known problem that people often do not really know the name of track. So it’s up on EchoNest and other people involved in music content analysis to bridge that gap. Of course, it will also be very interesting how such a application will scale in the large. Do the 50 or 100 or people like to recieve streams from my PC? At least I don’t really know if it is really legal when I stream the music. It is, in my opinion, a kind of broadcast (and the old problem with the intellectual property management).

Cheers,

zazi

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:40:45 +0000

Ah, thanks much – it is easy to forget which python modules are not standardized.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:59:41 +0000

Great overview, Paul.

Here’s an issue that cropped up with installing the echonest resolver:

File “/Users/lgonze/bin/playdar-core/contrib/echonest/echonest-resolver.py”, line 14, in
import simplejson as json
ImportError: No module named simplejson

Obviously the fix is to find and install the module, but I figured you’d want to know about the hurdle.

By: Robert Dyson

Robert Dyson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:16:58 +0000

This is awesome. Thanks for the article!

By: Fine Tuning

Fine Tuning — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:33:45 +0000

Great overview.
Audiogalaxy came to my mind when reading the introduction.

By: David Singleton

David Singleton — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:31:21 +0000

It’s great to see Playdar getting wider recognition.

Adding new resolvers really is very simple and it’s the easiest part of the project for new developers to get involved in. There’s a base PHP resolver [1] I wrote which reduces the amount of boiler plate needed for a new resolver.

Hopefully people will contribute similar classes for other languages in the future.

[1] http://github.com/RJ/playdar-core/blob/master/contrib/phpresolver/playdarresolver.php