Problems

storage mechanism

• User uploads to their upload dir
• imported files are moved to .imported and marked read only
• imported files are tagged with an ELFID, and any other useful metadata IDs

TODO

• drop bin on right
  • static position relative to window
  • all entities can be dragged into it
  • different types of objects have different icons
    • users
    • artists
    • albums
    • tracks
  • bin can be played, shuffled, downloaded, saved, loaded, etc.
• song grouping
  • a ui that lets you drag an album's tracks around (or multiple albums) in a workspace
  • you pile tracks into preset groups:
    • not interesting
    • top 3
    • genre x and genre y
  • or into anonymous groups that can then be tagged and shared
• views
  • album cover view; hovering the cover shows tracks, and clicking a track starts playing it. (seekbar in frame below?)
• synchronizable databases (for "elfmesh")
  • requires a better database (for caching and synchronizing)
  • (?) could tokyocabinet be used to multiplex and synchronize databases?

Resources

Flash Audio Players

• SoundManager2

• SoundManager2 Radial Visualization (using the canvas)

ELFIDs

• Amarok File Tracking

• MPEG-7 Audio Fingerprinting

Ideas

• Manifesto for a Better Music Player

Head-Bop Index

uses the webcam to detect how much the user is bopping their head

Podcasts

Why not?

Shoutcast Rippers

Awwyeah. (with statistics gathering)

jQuery GUI Components

• Drag'n'Drop Uploader (with graceful degradation)

• jsTree, jQuery Treeview

  • for trees of things

• jQuery MultiSelect

  • for tagging

• jQuery Nested Sortable (alternate version)

  • for bucket (playlist) management

• jQuery Fisheye (like the Mac Icon Dock)

  • i dunno... maybe a cool view for album covers?

• jQuery FileTree

  • for browsing

• jQuery Draggable

  • for throwing things into buckets

• HighSlide

  • for detail view on buckets

• jQuery Context Menu

  • actions for buckets and tracks (edit, play, shuffle, etc.)

• jQuery Popups

  • dangerous operations and quick-text-entry (searching via a hotkey? tagging?)

• Spy

  • other users are currently listening to...

• jQuery Simple Drag'n'drop

  • for whatever

• jQuery Selection via Rubber-Banding and Ctrl/Shift-Click

  • ??

• jQuery Range Selector

  • date range for searches (albums between 1920 and 1929, uploads between last week and tomorrow, etc.)

• jQuery iGoogle

  • ??

• jQuery Scramble-Puzzle

  • haha.. this is fun. maybe for sorting piles of things?

• jQuery Tooltips

  • help and such

• jQuery History

  • make the site all slick and dynamic, but you can still copy/paste the URL, and the back/forward buttons keep functioning too

• jCrop

  • cropping!

jQuery Apps

• Relay file manager

JavaScript Offline Local-Storage

• Persevere

  • Everything!

• Dojo OfflineRest

  • Transparently query the localStorage or the REST server, queue up writes when offline, keep database in sync.

Clients

AIR App

• drag/drop files to store on a server
• P2P listening (via server -- acts as cache)
• mixer
  • playlist can flip over, revealing the DJ mixer app
  • overlapping tracks blend together
  • cropping lets you pick just the hook

Chrome Plugin

Surprisingly, Chrome looks like a great ELF platform.

The plugin could be a "Shortcut to Desktop App" Chrome process/window.

APIs that Chrome gives you:

• Desktop notifications

• Other stuff

Data Sources

RateYourMusic.com

• http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

Blip.fm

• download data
• correllate users with similar taste
• group blips by category

MusicBrainz / Freebase

Last.FM

MP3 Tagging

• sweeper is a Ruby/Last.FM/id3lib-based MP3 autotagger.