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Written on August 16, 2007 – 7:38 pm | by admin

I have been unable to get in contact with Jon Buda about his awesome project mp3act.  So, I decided to fork it and start work on a new project called GrammaFone.

GrammaFone builds on the great work of mp3act, which created a very nice web based streaming digital music.

For the geeks, mp3act uses SAJAX for its AJAX work, which is am interesting choice.  I hope to replace this with JQuery or prototype/script.aculo.us.

If you’re interested in helping out, check out the project trac or svn code itself.

  1. 9 Responses to “project pages live”

  2. By Jase on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply

    contact details?

  3. By Badjaccur on Nov 9, 2007 | Reply

    Huzzah for forking this! I hope you find the time and motivation to work on this project. I will try your releases and give feedback.

  4. By Ben on Nov 11, 2007 | Reply

    Cheers Badjaccur. Any feature requests?

  5. By Badjaccur on Nov 15, 2007 | Reply

    Hello Ben,
    Like you I believe this program has potential. As for features it would be nice to have an option to index the music files by file name and folder and not just the ID tag. Second it would be nice to have an easier way of fetching album art. Without making an account at Amazon that is. Third would be some skinnable interface. Always a good way of getting web apps popular ;-) (Plus I like to GIMP up a theme) For the project it would be nice to start a forum. That’s all for now. :)

  6. By Spitbyte on Feb 2, 2008 | Reply

    Hi,

    Just a quick hello to say thanks for forking mp3act. I really dig what you’re trying to do and look forward to the project prospering and surpassing the (already) great Mp3act.

    Unfortunately I do not have any real coding skills — so I can’t lend a hand there :(. Although I did add an ugly hack to my existing mp3act installation which provided me the random functionality that I longed for from my experience with gnump3d. I hope this (or at least the concept) would be included in your future releases; details of my changes can be found here:

    http://www.mp3act.net/support/topic.php?id=127

    See post at the end for a breakdown of what I did. I can supply copies of my currently working files , should you feel the idea worthy.

    Beyond this mp3act suited my needs, but I would be happy to see new features if they enhance the user experience further — keeping bloat to a minimum.

    One feature that would be awesome would be if the mp3 directory could be watched for changes and new additions auto added, negating the need to rebuild the database each time. I think this a big problem with mp3act.

    I was very surprised at how little exposure mp3act received , considering how polished it was and also that (IMHO) it was by far the best mp3 server I tried. It would be nice to see ‘Grammaphone’ achieve a bit more notoriety and (by virtue) a large user base and developer team).

    Well, like I said just saying hello and I will watch this project with keen interest and will contribute where I can. Perhaps as a beta tester.

    Good luck and thanks again.

    Spitbyte

  7. By Myke on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    How do you gain access to the svn and I’ve done some work on the mp3act code that May be able to contribute (skins, IE compatibility). Let me know now.
    Thanks
    Myke

  8. By Ben on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Myke, svn has anonymous read, so feal free to grab the code like this:


    svn co http://svn.grammafone.com/trunk grammafone

    That will check out the latest trunk to a directory called grammafone.

  9. By Ben on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

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  10. By Myke on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks Ben.
    I think I got it downloaded.

    I do regret to say I deleted your email before I realized who it was from. Could you resend? Thanks

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