Re: [Librefm-discuss] Fwd: Welcome to the "Librefm-discuss" mailing list

[Matt Lee]

> Okay, well I have to admit to having fallen out of touch with the
> project. Any chance of a brief summary of the state of the project?

Sure.

At the present moment, we have:

17,878,745 listens.

3,147,167 unique tracks.

23,457 users.

We have a working server for accepting 'scrobbles' from various clients,
as well as support in several free software clients.

This support ranges from the ability to change the hostname for the
scrobble server (VLC, Rhythmbox) to being able to choose Libre.fm as a
destination for your scrobbles (ZOMG, Quot Libet).

In addition, there are many other projects which are adding support --
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=turtle.libre.fm&hl=en&btnG=Search+Code is
a good indicator of some of them.

Nixtape, the website front end has also improved somewhat. I am now
happy with the simple design of it, and we have seen it working
reasonably well on netbooks and phones. A specific CSS for mobile
devices is something I would like to add in the coming week.

> Goals for the coming months, etc?

Fix streaming -- Jamendo's Ogg streams are broken, and attempts to get
them fixed have not been useful. They are having some financial
troubles, I believe.

I would like to investigate the possibilities of getting someone else
with an interest in libre music, such as Creative Commons, to help us
out by hosting all the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA music from Jamendo, in Ogg
format, for streaming.

Get more developers -- we're coming up on a year of development, things
are a little quieter than they were at the start, but we do have a lot
of the initial goals of the project implemented, live and being used by
a lot of people -- that said, it would be great to implement some new
features: better import from Last.fm (using the new export API), improve
artist pages and implement tags.

Donations are always welcome too -- we have upcoming domain renewals and
SSL registrations to pay for -- PayPal donations to address@hidden
are welcome :)

> BTW the homepage points to
> http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm ... is that the
> old/dead list?

Yeah, I've put up a basic page at that URL pointing to the new list, and
fixed links on the website itself.

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