Ad Hoc Record Player

My personal music collection, now in a digital flavour.

To Do

• Be able to cope with multiple artists per album (Distant Relatives)

• Individual side scrobble options

• Ability to set scrobble time

• Once all records are saved switch back to default as latest

• Generate splatter effect for records

• Add h-card to link

• Create main header image

  • Will need a smaller version (simplified) for nav?

• Consider microformats feed

• Record needle (?)

• Desired page

• Create CD image

• Add iconography for other tags (next to button?)

• Image optimisations

  • Maybe serve webp if able

• Pagination for home page

• Lazy loading

• Abstract sort by functionality into web component so that React can be removed from page

• Highlight most recent somehow

  • Could use a combination of grid-column: span 2 to make them visually larger and then grid-auto-flow: dense to fill the gaps
  • Or leave the gaps and work out some way to fill them, maybe with music notes?

• Auto colour contrast record colours

• Allow people to like specific albums/artists

• Gather general webmentions of the site (maybe store on a hidden page? Or add to footer)

• Add Last.fm link and anything else relevant to the footer

• RSS feed

• ✅ Scrobble button

• ✅ Display other albums by an artist on the artist page

• ✅ 404 page

• ✅ Loading page

• ✅ Sort by artist as default

• ✅ Sort by switches (artist or date purchased)

• ✅ Hide sort by if JS is not enabled

• ✅ Store sort choice in local storage

• ✅ Change sort so that it ignores "the" in titles

• ✅ Fix build to stop unwanted artist pages being rendered (getStaticPaths)

• ✅ Artists pages populate from correct API

• ✅ All tracks should be scrobbled so min length sent 31 seconds

Future

• Discogs integration
• Spotify integration
• Last.fm integration (full)
  • Pressing scrobble button should send preformatted API request directly to Last.fm
    • Use track.scrobble
      • https://www.last.fm/api/show/track.scrobble
      • Should include artist track duration albumArtist (if different i.e. when featured) album trackNumber and timestamp; must have api_key and api_sig (latter is auth)
        • What to do with compilations/soundtracks for albumArtist?
        • Need to determine preferred format for trackNumber
        • Should be able to reverse engineer timeStamp: add all together to get total length, subtract from now, then add duration to running figure to get a timestamp for each track
        • Should look into sk (session key) to see if that's a way to open this up to anyone
        • duration needs to be in seconds so 1:23 would be 83
    • Max 50 tracks in one request, so will need to cover for that and split into multiple
    • Can retry if errors
    • Returns XML with <scrobble> elements for each success
    • POST to http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/
      • utf-8 encoded
      • authenticated
  • Will need to ensure that doing so only works if the user is logged in on local device, so that other people can't scrobble to my account 😂 (also means others can use my site to scrobble specific albums)
  • Perhaps some kind of additional keyboard combination (Shift + click?) first pops up a date entry to retroactively scrobble. For the most part unnecessary (don't care that much) but might be beneficial for some instances the cross month/year boundaries
  • Automate awards? (Probably too much effort - MTIH)
• Add awards
  • Top 10 per year (permanent)
  • Top 10 current (updated whenever)
  • Has been top 10 at some point (permanent)
  • Awards page with rankings and stats
  • Top artists all of the above
• Shops page
• Could set up a web ring of similar sites, then use webmentions to say "I own this too" as a way of interlinking? (<-- probably needs some kind of central db)