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GrooveWalrus 0.302 Released

New version is out, the Lyrics plug-in received some changes along with a few other things.

- Changed the Album tab to display albums that have various artists, to display the correct artist for each song.
- Added a Loved Songs option to the My Last.fm tab to display the 'Loved' tracks from you, your friends, or your neighbors.
- Added PubSub to send messages to indicate a new track is playing.
- Changed up the Lyrics plug-in layout.
- Lyrics plug-in now contains a drop-down to let you select a new song lyrics if the first one returned is not correct.
- Lyrics plug-in is resize-able, and restores position and size on next load.
- Added Ctrl-R to Lyrics plug-in, resets the position if something goes wonky.
- Added KillReceiver to kill a pubsub listener on exit from Lyrics plug-in.
- Added Ctrl-- and Ctrl-= to increase or decrease font size on the Lyrics plug-in.

Playback isn't correct song

Submitted by tgpo on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:55.

I did a search for Gorillaz - Plastic Beach and got the album playlist. The song titles and orders are correct, but almost none of the songs are what they claim to be. I then search for a specific song I like on the album and added every search result to a playlist, and none of them were the correct song.

I confirmed on grooveshark.com that all the songs I saw in the search results are on the website and are the correct song. So what's the disconnect between grooveshark.com and what GrooveWalrus is actually playing?

re: Playback isn't correct song

Submitted by groovewal on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 15:36.

Actually, some of the songs on Grooveshark, aren't the correct ones:
Gorillaz-Plastic Beach-24540420
vs.
Gorillaz-Plastic Beach Ft. Mick Jones & Paul Simon-24616785

GrooveWalrus will pick the best matching result based on the results returned, in this case that result happens to be a song that has been improperly labeled (intentionally or otherwise). You can log into Grooveshark and flag the songs as mislabeled (which may do something?) if you're so inclined. I can't really think of too much I can do from my end.

plugin

Submitted by jtjn on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 15:23.

Groovewalrus is the best! Couple questions/comments...

1. Integration with getglue would be most awesome.
2. Do you accept donations? If so, what is the best way?

Thanks for an excellent app.

re: plugin

Submitted by groovewal on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 15:15.

1. A Getglue plug-in should be easy enough. What would you want it do do? Be able to tag albums/artists as 'Liked', Disliked', and 'Favorite'? Add reviews too? Doesn't seem like they let you tag individual songs.

2. I put a Paypal donate link on the bottom left corner of this site (thanks, to anyone who wants to donate).