Mielophone
About Mielophone
Mielophone is a minimalistic application for searching, listening, downloading and discovering new music.
It mashes up together databases like MusicBrainz,
Last.FM and BBCRadio to deliver complete info about songs,
artists and albums.
And uses unique plugin system to search for publicly available mp3s and streams for desired songs.
Here's a little screencast:
And here's logos of catalogues where Mielophone is a featured app:
Features
Search
Search for your favorite artists, albums or songs using up to date crowd-sourced databases. MusicBrainz provide complete and precise discography, Last.FM provides complete info about artists including tags, similar and related artists as well as ratings, BBCRadio provides top lists.
Play
Use integrated player to listen to your favorite music right from the Internet. Or download mp3s and play with a desktop player of your choice.
Download
Powerful integrated download manager will handle both single song and full album downloads.
Plugins
Flexible plugins system allows seamless integration of almost any streaming or mp3 provider into Mielophone. Adding plugin to application is as simple as copying one into "plugins/" folder. Everyone can create a plugin since Mielophone is completely open source (see Get involved section). Special plugins market are available to simplify plugin discovery process.
Get involved
Writing plugins is simple. But this section is not yet ready :D So just contact me if you are interested ;)
Installation
Installation process is simplified to maximum. There's currently two ways of getting the app installed:
- Downloading generic AIR package as well as Adobe AIR Runtime and installing them both (requires administrator access) [recommended]
- Downloading platform-specific package and installing it in a way common to selected platform (no administrator access required, does not have autoupdate feature!)
Download Adobe AIR.
Download
If some links is not working below, you can always go directly to Github downloads section.
Windows
Download AIR package. [recommended]
OR
Download Windows bundle here (v0.3.0). (Warning! Bundles does not have autoupdate feature!)
Mac OS X
Download AIR package. [recommended]
OR
Download Mac OS X bundle here (v0.3.0). (Warning! Bundles does not have autoupdate feature!)
Linux
For Linux users it's a bit trickier.
First, you'll need to install Adobe AIR itself.
Latest version available for Linux is AIR 2.6.
Ubuntu users can just enter "sudo apt-get install adobeair" in command line to get it.
After installing AIR, grab a generic AIR package of Mielophone here.
Help
Some kind of help section. Will be extended with common user questions.
Contacts
You can contact me using email: mielophoneapp at gmail
Or you can use github messaging system.
I'll try to answer ASAP.
If you have found a bug or want to suggest a feature, please use github issues.
You can also follow news on:
Twitter
Facebook
Vk.com
Tumblr
Youtube
Donate
If you really like Mielophone, you can give me some cash that I can spend on beer.
Or games :3 I really love playing games, guys (though this one can be dangerous,
since I might play all the time and incidentally forget about Mielophone dev :D)
You can also donate some gold in World of Warcraft or whatever else you think I'd deserved for creating Mielophone.
Just write me an email and we'll figure something out :D
Ways to do this
Paypal
You can transfer something to this paypal button:
Flattr
Webmoney / Yandex.Money
Just transfer your stuff to one of those number:
WMZ: Z478765042527
WMR: R264535985273
Yandex.Money: 41001146192876
Steam
I also really love to play games on Steam. So, you can gift me something there, here's my profile. :)
Gittip