johrpan/musicus

The classical music player and organizer.

musicus's Issues

Validate all inputs

Most fields within database entities impose soft (i.e. practical, not technical) restrictions on the user input that are currrently not enforced. An example are empty strings for user visible names or titles. These should be properly handled so that the user is not able to enter invalid data.

Automatic tagging for suitable audio files

This would be a nice quality of life feature to use the rich metadata managed by Musicus to automatically populate metadata within audio files for use in other applications. As a first step, it would be acceptable to do this once only when adding new tracks to the library. In the future, there could be some kind of manual and/or automatic synchronization (out of scope for now).

Consider using an archive format for the music library

The risk of messing up the carefully managed library structure by manually modifying the audio files on the file system seems to be big enough to consider using an archive format instead. This would also allow more control over file naming and structure and open up possibilities for a library transfer mechanism. The ZIP format seems fitting, because it relatively platform independent, keeps an index and supports multiple (or no) compression algorithms including WavPack.

Refactor how library updates are propagated

Currently, the whole backend gets reloaded everytime the library is updated. This results in borrowing issues because some parts of the application keep a reference to contents of the old library. Either these lifetime issues should be fixed (short term solution), or a more granular approach to updating the library should be invented.

Basic functionality for alpha release

This is a list of things that will need to be implemented for the first public release:

• Editors for all library entities
  • Persons
  • Works
  • Roles
  • Instruments
  • Ensembles
  • Recordings
  • Albums
• Import screen for
  • Mediums
  • Single recordings
• Library management
  • Default library
  • Creating a new library
  • Merging libraries
  • Importing libraries
  • Exporting libraries

Add option to show audio files in file manager

There should be an option on recordings and possibly playlist items for showing the linked audio files in the user's preferred file manager.