Amuse
Description:	Last.FM client and collection browser for TuneNet
Download:	amuse.lha       (TIPS: Use the right click menu if your browser takes you back here all the time)
Size:	1Mb
Version:	0.68.6
Date:	21 Feb 2010
Author:	Yakov Mindelis
Submitter:	Yakov Mindelis
Email:	jackitg/gmail com
Homepage:	http://amuse.sourceforge.net
Requirements:	wget, sqlite, tunenet, awnpipe, image2icon
Category:	audio/play/tunenet
Replaces:	audio/play/tunenet/amuse.lha
License:	Freeware
Distribute:	yes
Min OS Version:	4.0
FileID:	5363
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AMuse is a frontend to Tunenet that is intended to act as a hierarchical 
browser  of your mp3 collection and basic Last.FM client.

Features: 
1.  Album/artist hierarchical display of the collection.
2.  Basic playlist editing
3.  Offline cover display
4.  Last.fm playback statistics submission 
5.  Last.fm similar artist stream playback
6.  Realtime cover display while playing Last.FM stream.
7.  Online artist wiki info display
8.  Database caching with SQLite
9.  AISS image support (autodetected)
10. Cover downolad using Last.FM 
11. Preferences window

This is an early beta version with following limitations:
1. Networked (samba/nfs) files with unsupported by AOS  characters in filename
and long filenames are not waccessible although they appear in the collection 
(they appear tagless regardless tag presence in the file) 


Installation note
=================

If upgrading from prior to 0.64.1: old amuse.db  must be removed.

2DO list
========
Random play 
Sort by artists only
More playlist editing functionality
Organizer of files. 

Requirements:
============
1. TuneNet

2. AWNPipe 2.54 (NOT aminet:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/awnpipe/billparker/AWNP_2-54.lha

3. PIPE: mounted 

4. AREXX with  rexxsupport.library
 

5. python (should be in the PATH, comes with OS4)

6. music/audio files, preferably tagged

7. sqlite (os4depot, please check if it has the needed protection bits to be
executable)

8. wget (os4depot, optional for on-demand display last.fm stream details,
playback works without it)

9. AISS  (optional)

10. last.fm account (for last.fm stats submission and streaming)

11. Image2icon (os4depot, for rescaling images in cover manager) 

Additional info is included in readme file inside the archive.

Read the installation procedure carefully (some 3-rd party requirements) and
save you work before first launch (just in case).

Changes:
========

1. numeric digits set to 10 fixes an occasional time progress jumps by 10 secs,
an attempt to make a better stop of tunenet 28/10/2009

2. fixes and adaptation to TuneNet shipped with os4.1.1 21/02/2010: 

Note:
----
Python, when run under certain circumstances (for example:  in presence of OWB
and Cygnix with lxpanel/idesk), throws an ISI. 
Sometimes it happens with under other combinations of applications, and not
always immediately.
This is not AMuse's bug, nor AWNPipe's (the ISI is achieved when python alone is
launched with the critical combiantion of other apps, 
sometimes "import" of some package inside python is required to trigger the
problem).

Any statistics on the issue will be greatly appreciated.