Scrobble Updates

Some of the updates today are things users requested and reminded me were lacking.

@wiseagent asked something about when writing music posts that they can't find the artist/song, it didn't make sense to me in the beginning what exactly he meant, cause they're still able to write any post through the site onto any community, but then it clicked. When you wanna write something about an artist specifically or a song, the reviews/posts should also show up on that artists page, for starters. Thus I started setting up artist pages better, for now artist's bios pages resolve automatically using MusicBrainz API, if it doesn't find anything there it attempts Wikipedia.

This means that now you can review any artist, any song and any album specifically. The search uses the MusicBrainz catalog if it hasn't been scrobbled yet. Albums should show up with cover art and every album page has its own review section with a one-click "be the first" write link. Reviews about a specific song also show up on the song's page now, /music wills how up recent reviews similar to the other pages in the past. Keep in mind that this may not be perfect yet and some things may need to still be check after further testing.

I've also been toying with the idea to start allowing artists to verify themselves since @selfhelp4trolls has their own page after our users have scrobbled his music. Some early ideas were to allow artist tipping directly and subscriptions to be notified when they release a new song, etc. There's a lot there to do so I didn't really start yet, for instance when artists verify (once we figure out the process how to) they could have part of their artist section editable to display things like their own preferred playlists (similar to spotify) along with some things they may wanna say themselves and potentially more.

Anyway, the work never ends. :D

I decided to also add a post summary field in the editor before you submit a post, this should help with SEO as pointed out by @dlmmqb, thanks!

I got tired of the way you switched logged in hive accounts with so we added a faster way to switch accounts to the site now. It remembers your other accounts and you can quickly switch on the accounts you've logged in with before. Keep in mind that this won't automatically change which account your extension is logged in with by default, since the extension attempts to log you in the first time you login with a hive account on the site.

Lastly we did a little bit of reordering and renaming of our stats on the frontpage, feels nice to be hitting 50k scrobbles here soon!

Thanks for reading, til next time!