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Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2014-09-05

Another feature I have always missed in XBMC is to be able to see the Music charts for an Artist.

This helps when browsing new artists to find their best songs.

I wrote an API here:

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And someone has even wrote a xbmc python script to return the details here

https://github.com/phil65/script.extendedinfo

So now we just need someone to integrate that into a skin or add-on Smile

The final idea is to have a feedback loop when browsing music artists to find the best tracks, even if you don't already know the band.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - DarkHelmet - 2014-09-05

Great Idea!

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - helta - 2014-09-05

good stuff, the music library needs more like this.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - sattekop - 2014-09-05

Music box

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - helta - 2014-09-05

would love to see something similar to IMDB 250 (on the video side of things), but with the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums/tracks.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2014-09-05

(2014-09-05, 20:25)helta Wrote: would love to see something similar to IMDB 250 (on the video side of things), but with the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums/tracks.

I actually thought about this already as well Wink

The top 500 album list is auto generated from sales figures

http://www.theaudiodb.com/topalbums

Of course all available from the JSON api

I could also do it based on the score out of 10, but need people to score their favourite albums first.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - Buzniak - 2014-10-04

(2014-09-05, 11:56)zag Wrote: Another feature I have always missed in XBMC is to be able to see the Music charts for an Artist.

This helps when browsing new artists to find their best songs.

I wrote an API here:

Image

And someone has even wrote a xbmc python script to return the details here

https://github.com/phil65/script.extendedinfo

So now we just need someone to integrate that into a skin or add-on Smile

The final idea is to have a feedback loop when browsing music artists to find the best tracks, even if you don't already know the band.

One of the best ideas in a long time, but do any API's support this?

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2014-10-04

(2014-10-04, 15:19)Buzniak Wrote: One of the best ideas in a long time, but do any API's support this?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. The API is already written and is live:

Examples
U2- http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/1/track-top10.php?s=u2
Coldplay - http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/1/track-top10.php?s=coldplay

Just needs someone to write a simple add-on really.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - DarkHelmet - 2015-01-05

Was this idea pursued? Still a great possible feature.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2015-01-07

(2015-01-05, 02:30)DarkHelmet Wrote: Was this idea pursued? Still a great possible feature.

Check out the recent update to:

https://github.com/phil65/script.extendedinfo

If you noticed in the documentation there is an update:

Code:
#########################################################################################
TheAudioDB
#########################################################################################

RunScript(script.extendedinfo,info=mostlovedtracks)         --> MostLovedTracks.%d
- fetches most loved tracks for the given artist (TheAudioDB)
-- required additional parameters: artistname=

Basically this means that any skin creator can now add music charts

Let me know if anyone implements it in a skin. Could be amazing to show the most popular tracks while browsing an artist.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - DarkHelmet - 2015-01-07

Neato. Did I get it right, that it's just up to a skin now to make use of the feature?

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2015-01-08

Yep correct.

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - DarkHelmet - 2015-01-08

All right, cool. Left a feature request at Ronie for his Transparency skin.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=214171

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - zag - 2015-01-08

Apparently this is already in Aeon if you want to test. I'm using the verson 5 so have not tried Phils version yet.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=202302&pid=1885309#pid1885309

RE: Top Music Tracks from Artist - DarkHelmet - 2015-01-09

Hmmm, I downloaded all the scripts and the master skin from Phil's thread but I can't find them. Huh

Edit: Found it. Where should I report my opinion about the implementation? Here or in Phil's thread?