Hey #Musicians, if you're on #Bandwagon, the time has come.

Adrian Cockcroft

@benpate Cool. I just signed up. Need to organize some noises to store there next…

Andy Piper

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Looking forward to your noise And please let me know if you have questions or need help?

Adrian Cockcroft

@benpate Thanks! I have a bunch of stuff on a paid SoundCloud account. Is there an import script or an API so I don’t have to hand copy stuff?

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Sorry, I don't have an import from SoundCloud. Most of the album setup in manual, though I'm working on a way to just upload MP3’s (or whatever) then read all the metadata off of them.

So, it'll get easier for those who come after you, but for now it's still kinda "hard mode.”

@adrianco

gribbles

@benpate Great stuff, Ben.

Will have a play later as I upload more older tracks…

Default Media Transmitter

@benpate Interesting to see that there are albums in the #bonkwave results that are not in the #NotBonkwave results. Are we getting closer to discovering what bonkwave is?

delanthear

@benpate *updates his hashtags and adds a release* Exciting

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Thank you! I’m going to keep at this until we have something amazing.

Honestly, #Bandwagon needs more #HeavyMetal. Any tips on how to reach our fellow metal fans on the Fediverse?

@delanthear

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Yes. And also no

@defaultmediatransmitter

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Awesome. And, thank you! Please tag your albums, and explore how they show in the search results. I’m really curious to see how it works for you.

@gribbles

delanthear

@benpate Metal I'm not sure! I'll happily add a free image ad to it from https://thegothcalendar.co.uk if you like.

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

That would be awesome. Yes please!

The design is very fluid right now, and I can certainly add more tags for Goth music and other related genres. I’m open to whatever works best

@delanthear

Andy Piper

@benpate not sure what the best channel is for feedback, defaulting to here so I think the "#8-bit" tag is not selectable (probably needs to drop the hyphen?). I think this looks really nice. Would be interested in an API...

Andy Piper

@benpate also, frustratingly, I don't seem to be able to like or follow directly, which makes me a bit sad.

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@andypiper Thanks! Yeah, I saw that too, on 8-bit specifically. Need to figure out why that specific label is breaking my widget.

Artists can put any tags in that they want, but server admins can choose which ones they feature, and which ones they hide.

What sort of API would you like? I could pretty easily give you a JSON feed of, what… all the tags? all the albums? search results only?

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Following a query of search results is coming soon. That's the big change that will make it different, but I think I need to hide that widget from the "beta" until it works.

But, you didn't have any trouble following a specific band, did you?

@andypiper

Andy Piper

@benpate no idea yet, I'm using words, and not sure what I want thinking about possible futures. I don't think a hashtag is "supposed" to include a hyphen. I did manage to follow a band but had to paste the ID into the Mastodon side, always fails with the intent link.

Andy Piper

@benpate apparently I think best when driving to the studio... so I'm thinking having Bandwagon search as an optional search provider inside of GNOME Shell (if I'm continuing with that little side project) - could be cool to search for artists, albums, genres and have them offered as results in GNOME itself -> visits to profiles.

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

Awesome idea. Thanks. I've put this in my project queue to think about: https://github.com/orgs/EmissarySocial/projects/1/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=95178266

I have a few other things I *need* to get done first, but I want to keep this in the mix to consider with other kinds of search-related issues.

@andypiper