Gray's blog

Sup,

So last night (10-20-09) I made a tweak to the search engine part of Axcid that greatly improved the service. So before yesterday, keyword searches such as:

mac dre, dr dre, rem

would return nothing. Also words under 4 letters in length weren’t counted, resulting in less relevance in search results & various other bugs. Last night I set out to correct that and did so successfully.

You’ll notice that specific searches now get more results, as well as the searches above which before returned nothing, now all return results.

This is just another step for Axcid’s future as a search engine, it gets better nearly every day.

In honor of my new G1 I purchased today, I’m showing off the development on Tunebin/Axcid Mobile.

The application is called Tunr. So far it’s bug_free and supports Tunebin Playlists & XSPF Playlists.

When I am done, it will be available on the Android Market, free of charge.

At the moment I’m writing my Media Services background service, the app will use it for playing songs, and it will of course support multitasking, so you can listen to your playlist whatever your doing.

Tunr supports(/will support) searching for songs via Axcid, it supports live music archive / Axcid search.

Downloading support will also be implemented sometime in the near future. I don’t have a ton of time to work on this due to paying jobs, but it will get done, don’t worry.

Hopefully in a couple days, I’ll get an SVN up for the packages:
org.graysblog.tunebin
org.graysblog.xspf
org.graysblog.http

so basic xspf playback can be implemented before the whole app is done. (Because who actually pays attention in class when there is 3g and music..),

Made something to spit TuneBin playlists into XSPF or M3U format.

http://graysblog.org/tunebin_xspf?p=6

where p=Your Playlist ID

and for m3u add &type=m3u

http://graysblog.org/tunebin_xspf?p=6&type=m3u

Alright this is just great. Will started to mess with the axcid api the other day, and came up with something cool. It’s like IgniteMusic, and uses the same api. But on the other hand, it doesn’t suck.

http://tunebin.info/

Powered by the axcid api, works on pretty much everything. Great way to listen to music like I do in class.

Some of my favorites:

Rap:

http://tinyurl.com/csnpuh – Gucci Mane – Icy (remix)

http://tinyurl.com/c4oloz – Eazy E – Eazy Does it

Alternative / BritRock:

http://tinyurl.com/cztwm6 – Arctic Monkeys – Scummy

Chillout:

http://tinyurl.com/dm7wfu – Sublime – Real Situation

Alt. covers:

http://tinyurl.com/d3re95 – Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the hood

just some good ones this week. gives me an excuse to post.