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Hi Coders and Musicfriends,

I'd like to use a component (plugin) for the best musicplayer on windows: foobar2000.

Source of Idea
Hello music lovers and technicans,

I'd like to ask, if there is a component/plugin/addon/something out there, which allows a user of f2k
to see (and choose) of all Aliases an Artist has.

The purpose is to listen to music of this artist which he/she/it has made under an alias which the user of f2k might not know already but is stored in the media library of f2k. (something like a genius function, only for the same artist => show/play all songs, this artist has ever made)

This component might be Discogs specific, as discogs can store tags about Artists Realnames, Name Variations and pseudonymes/aliases in the music-files, but any other, like MusicBrainz will do, I guess.


I take Robert Babicz as an example artist.

He has aliases like (i.e.) : Rob Acid, Colone, Acid Warrior, Department Of Dance, Dicabor, Sontec, Twirl

which could be listed like a (clickable) word cloud or word map:

(when clicking on a word, obviously a quicksearch for ... should start, which opens a new playlist with all the found songs)

The component should be able to let the user choose which tags needed to be considered.

In my example with discoGS, there could be tags (multiline tags too) in the music-files, like

%ARTIST% (the standard artist tag)
%PERFORMER% (maybe the artists performs a special instrument)
%DISCOGS_ARTIST_REALNAME% (the real-life-name of the artist)
%DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDIT_MUSIC_BY% (maybe the artist has written this piece of music)
%DISCOGS_ARTIST_MEMBERS% (maybe the artist is a member of a band or combo)
%DISCOGS_ARTIST_ALIASES% (other names, the artist is known as)
%DISCOGS_ARTIST_VARIATION% (other variations of the artists name)
%DISCOGS_ARTIST_ANVS% (other variations of the artists name)
%DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDIT_REMIX% (maybe the artists remixed this track)
%DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDIT_VOCALS% (maybe the artists sung in this track)
%DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDIT_FEATURING% (maybe the artists was featured in this track)
(btw: you can add all of the discogs tags with the great foo_discogs component)

The component then, would take all the names it could grab out of the user-defined tags above and weighten the found names simply on how often they occour.
Say, the ARTIST-tag of the current selected song in f2k is Robert Babicz, it gets the biggest weight.
Then every other found tag information relies on Robert Babicz

Does anybody know a component which allows something like that ?
(I know, I didn't explained it all very well and obviously there is some deep thinking missing, but I hope, you get the point, which is capable of development)

The fancy image is not needed, its nice, but a simple (weight-ordered) list would do!
And if its not possible to weight-order, just a list would do as well. ;-)



I have experimented with the "similar artists" Artist Info for the great JScipt Panel Component, but it only offers similar artists, not just aliases/pseudonyms of a single artist.


Thank you all for reading and maybe some ideas/links on this.



P.S.
For all ppl. which are interested in playing around on http://www.wortwolken.com/ (which is where the above image comes from) here is the saved layout/list http://pastebin.com/dAvEPU0R which needs to be saved as a file (i.e. wordcloud.wcld) and then opened into http://www.wortwolken.com/ (file->open)
-fuffi link=msg=932801 date=1482311947

Someone need to know about the f2k SDK, I guess.

Or maybe this can be released within JScipt Panel Component?

Or it might be a Panel for Columns UI (not the default UI)

What price/time would it be to release such a thing?

(If this can be done, it would be great if the component would be downloadable from the foobar2000 components site, would be open source so foobar2000 component developers or other users could use/enhance it.


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Hello,

I'm looking for someone who is a coder/skinner for Kodi and can help me with enhancing some standard skin functions, which I had back in Kodi 15, but which were removed by introducing a new Skin in Kodi 17.
(btw: I’m running OpenElec on a RP2, using a AppleTV Remote as a Remote Controller)

I did changed some of the functions of the default skin „Confluence“ for Kodi 15, but now, I'm too busy/lazy/nooby to apply my knowledge to the new skin „Estuary"...
Thats the reason, I'd like to pay for the luxuriousness of getting things done by others. Please tell me, how much you like to get for your work/time.

When I receive the modified files, I will textcompare them with the originals and will hopefully learn by reproduceing and copy changed codesnippets :-)


What do I need? (see References/Screenshots at the end of this posting)

I’d like to enhance mainly the contextual menu on the main screen, but also I don’t want to see the clock. never.

So my requests would be:


1)
Enhance the Movie-Contextmenu while on the  HomeScreen:
Add a „Manage…“ entry for the selected Movie.
After chosing „Manage…“ the standard „Manage…“ contextmenu should open.
The „Manage…“ entry should be available on the sections „In Progress Movies“, „Unwatched Movies“, and „Recently Added Episodes“


2)
Enhance the TV Shows-Contextmenu while on the  HomeScreen:
Add a „Manage…“ entry for the selected Movie.
After chosing „Manage…“ the standard „Manage…“ contextmenu should open.
The „Manage…“ entry should be available on the sections „In Progress TVShows“, „Unwatched TVShows “, „Random Movies“ and „Recently Added Movies“


3)
Enhance the Music-Contextmenu while on the HomeScreen:
Add a „Play“ and a "Queue Item" entry for the selected Album/Artist from the Music Section of the HomeScreen.
After chosing „Play“ or "Queue Item", the selected Album should start playing or queue the selected album. (If it is possible, to play all music of the selected Artist too, this will be great. If not, no problem.)
The „Play“ and "Queue Item" entry should be available on the sections „Most Played Albums“, „Unplayed Albums“, „Random Artists“, „Random Albums“, „Recently Added Albums“ and „Recently Played Albums"


4)
No Big Clock anymore in the upper right corner of the screen. (On some video files, a "subclock-info" is shown: "video ends at <time>", which I don't mind if it is shown. But no big clock/time)



Please let me know, if someone is willing to spend some time for this, or will/can help me with editing the corresp. XML files (which I don’t know).

Any input would be appreciated.

References/Screenshots:

Clock:
http://kodi.wiki/view/File:Settings_krypton.JPG
http://kodi.wiki/images/thumb/c/c1/EstuarySideBarMenu01.gif/500px-EstuarySideBarMenu01.gif

"Manage..." menu
http://kodi.wiki/view/File:Contextualmenu_movie_1.png from http://kodi.wiki/view/Video_navigation

"Play" and "Queue Item" menu
http://kodi.wiki/view/File:Context.library.mymusic.jpg from http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_navigation

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