Tune Library
NOTICE: I will be working on a very involved project from mid-September 2011 to June 2012 and will not as much time available to support questions/feature requests on my plugins as I would normally have. Therefore, I recommend that you read through all comments here, through the forum on the wordpress.org and through the FAQ before asking questions. I will try to answer a few questions on occasions but I cannot guarantee at what frequency this will be. I will share more about this project as it progresses.
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This plugin allows users to import the music information from their iTunes Library Library file into their WordPress database. Once imported, they can print the contents of their library to a WordPress page.
My Music section of this site uses Tune Library to generate its contents.
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Yannick, you are absolutely awesome!
Very cool plugin. Any chance you could make it work with windows media player???
That's an interesting thought, but not an easy one since I found the code to parse the iTunes library and save it in a database. I will do some research to see if I can find a parser for the WMP library and then see how much work it would be to add that feature.
Sweet!! Thanks for looking into it Yannik.
How much does this increase my database by?
Or is that a silly question?
Hi Jason, Not a silly question at all. All my plugin does is to extract textual information about your music and store this text in your database. So it won't increase the size of your database that much. The increase in size is directly related to the size of your collection and the names of artists and tracks in your collection. So liking Rush more than Emerson, Lake and Palmer would use up less space
Yannick,
Amazing. Are you available for hire for a project very related to this plugin you created?
I really like the idea. I got a problem though. I Inserted The code in quotations " [tune-library]" I tried removing and it still won't show up in the page. The source code for the page shows its there. I can see your page but not mine. I'm tested with both chrome and firefox. Latest versions of course.
I also tested it with 5 other brand new themes. Not sure what the deal is but if you could help me out that wuld be great. I'm using the latest version of wordpress also.
I do have a feature request. Pull xml file from a url on your host. Set intervals for it to update.
Hi Andrew,
The code not getting translated into the actual output usually just means that the plugin is not activated correctly or that the keyword has a typo it.
Did you XML library's import work correctly into the plugin? If so, then things should display.
If you want, you can create a temp admin account on your blog and I will connect remotely and double-check that everything is configured as needed for this to work.
Yannick,
It's not showing up in my page. I am using the latest wp install along with firefox and chrome. My library is quite large around 5500 songs. The source code for both firefox and chrome show the code for the library it just won't render it and show it. Any ideas what could be going wrong?
I'm not to smart apparently. When I installed it I uploaded the XML file but when I unistalled it and then reinstalled it the XML wasn't picked up even though the directory hasn't changed.
Hi Andrew,
I am not sure I understand why you uninstalled the plugin and re-installed it. The plugin only read data from the XML file when you press the import button. Afterwards, the data is stored in your blog's MySql database and access from that repository.
Yannick,
Since it wasn't working the first time I thought that maybe it didn't get installed correctly.
Not sure why it didn't pull data from the mysql database though. That's strange