Overview

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A year in the making this second Python project with Tkinter. It's called mserve which is short for Music Server:

mserve-2021-05-21_17.54.13.mp4

• Lyrics are automatically scraped from the internet as new songs are played.
• Edit lyrics for minor changes or massive copy from internet and replace.
• Click on each line to synchronize the time for future playback.
• Auto scroll lyrics, time scroll lyrics or manually scroll lyrics score.
• Fine-tune adjustments to time index are done on separate window.
• Sample middle 10 seconds of song. Future select one or two key song lines.
• Right click on song to bring up Kid3 which runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.
• Multiple locations are supported including sleeping servers woken with magic packet.
• Compare music files between locations and update differences.
• Compare supports Android with shadow file system for last modified date.
• Encode CDs with automatic track name retrieval from MusicBrainz.
• Encode CDs with automatic Cover Art download or Image paste from clipboard.
• SQLite3 now used to replace old pickles and to add new features for history tracking.
• Music player runs while encoding process takes dozens of minutes per CD.
• Original version in Linux but hopefully minor port to Windows and Apple.
• Hopefully in a couple of years port to cars with Apple or Android decks.
• Hopefully in a few years Record Companies will give away mserve.
• If anyone is "disturbed" by sample video please advise ASAP and I'll find a different one.

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Overview

Primary screen color is derived by album artwork:

mserve-2021-05-21_18.27.15.mp4

• Windows can be resized and Album Artwork grows and shrinks accordingly.
• Primary color (@ coordinates 3x3) can change as artwork is resized.
• Commercial and Intermission buttons are for NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Click when they start and TV volume is turned down to 25% and music resumes play. When countdown ends music pauses and TV volume is turned back up to original state.
• Shuffle button resorts the selected songs in the playlist.
• The playlist are the songs checked in the library. More on the library screen later!
• Also still to come is Location screen (different music partitions, or directories, or devices).
• Also still to come is Encoding (Rip CD) screen. To be clear functions are written but video hasn't been made yet.
• Playlists are currently stored in pickle format but plans are to convert to SQL. Also SQL search engine is planned.
• Webscraping lyrics is via Genius but some results are "not ideal" so three other websites out of six have support and a menu to select all six will come soon. SQL will record history of what was scraped when, edited when, how long edit took, time indexed synchronized when, other devices (locations) updated when, which songs were updated, etc.

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Play music while you encode CDs:

nserve.encode.cd.mp4

This video clip show how music player continues in real time while you use mserve to encode a CD.

Great lengths are taken to ensure animations never lag even when focus grabbing dialog boxes require a response.

The encoding process uses libdiscid to read the Audio CD's Disc ID. Then Musicbrainz is accessed to get track listings for Disc ID. It also automatically extracts coverart from the internet. You can also paste album artwork from the clipboard which you manually copied from Amazon, etc. More work is required in encoding process to support more than just .OGA, .WAV and .FLAC formats currently supported.