Lyrics Muse - Mash up your last.fm profile with lyrics

Favourite Your Albums and Artists

admin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:21:12 +0000

For a long time you’ve been able to favourite your tracks so you could have quicker and easier access to them. Now the same feature has been added to albums and artists. Simply click on the <3 icon on an album or artist page to favourite an item.

It’s now also possible to quickly remove favourited items on your personal dashboard page. Just click ‘remove’ next to the artist, album or track.

Your Artists, Albums and Songs

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:45:32 +0000

Lyrics Muse now presents a user who’s logged in with only his or her items where possible. For instance if you browse to “My Albums” and select an album or an artist from there you will only see the tracks that you have listened to for that album. You can toggle this easily on the page itself if you want to browse all tracks for the album. This feature should make it easier to browse your personal library.

Search is Back Up!

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:39:15 +0000

What the subject says.

Now with delta indexing in place strain on the server has been reduced significantly.

Search is Down - Amazon Store

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:56:02 +0000

Search is currently disabled. I hope to have it back running today but I’m not sure.

TECHNICAL NERD STUFF AHEAD:

Search is based on Sphinx which is a very fine search engine indeed. It indexes fast but when the amount of data becomes too large you need to use something called delta indexing, which as the name implies only indexes the “what changed since the last full index” and then merges it with the full index.

I was trying to implement that yesterday and it seemed to work, so I rolled out a new version of Lyrics Muse. Then it started going sour on me and I had to disable it.

Amazon Store

If you feel inclined to support Lyrics Muse and regularly shop at Amazon I’ve added a small storefront you can shop through. This will support Lyrics Muse with a few affiliate dollars.

Automatic Refresh Feature

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:44:59 +0000

Something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time turned out to be a fairly quick and painless feature enhancement. I simply love Ruby on Rails and the easy integration with Prototype. AJAX becomes a breeze.

The feature in question is automatic updating of your recent tracks and artists shown in the sidebar. Earlier you would have to manually reload the page but now it automagically updates every minute. That is, it checks the server to see if your listening data has been updated from last.fm and if so updates your sidebar.

The feature is hardly noticable but I’m already noticing that I’m manually refreshing a whole lot less.

Missing Lyrics

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:21:09 +0000

I just got back from a pretty cool Roskilde Festival. Not the best program but nonetheless filled with lots of good concerts if you were willing to research the line-up a little.

As you know Lyrics Muse is all about quickly finding the lyrics for the songs you’re listening to right now. As such it is super annoying to click on a song only to be directed to the edit window.

For that reason you can now see if a song has lyrics or not. In most places with a link to a song “(ML)” is appended to the song title if it is Missing Lyrics.

For those of you who contribute (thanks, you guys rock!) you can still see the most popular tracks with no lyrics here but now you can simply go to Coldplay’s artist overview page and see which songs need some lyrics lovin’.

Lyrics Muse Blog - Welcome

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:51:41 +0000

Welcome to the Lyrics Muse blog.

I used to write about changes and tidbits in the last.fm group but in the long run this simply isn’t working out for me or the users who want to know what’s going on. This blog will serve as a better outlet for the changes and upcoming features on Lyrics Muse.