Topic: Current Music Charts (Read 7195 times)

KingSparta · « **on:** June 19, 2003, 02:48:59 am »

I Have Been Working On A Program For A Few Days That Will Search For And Then Display The Current Charts For The Current Week.

Would This Be Usefull?

What Other Options Should The Program Have?

Should It Do Anything Else?

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2003, 03:04:12 am »

Sounds pretty cool. Will it do the UK charts too or just the US one? (Not that the UK chart is ever really worth listening to but...

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Adam

nila · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2003, 04:11:51 am »

YESSS!!!

I've been meaning to ask u for this for ages.

I started manually making playlists of the Billboard top 20 RnB+Hip-Hop charts but it's a slow long process.

Would LOVE it if ur plugin would do it.

Could we manually select which charts it does?

I just want playlists for each chart each week created

KingSparta · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2003, 04:29:22 am »

Currently There is about 8 - 10 charts you can select manualy or select batch and it will find all and put into a List.

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I started manually making playlists of the Billboard top 20 RnB+Hip-Hop charts but it's a slow long process.

you will need to e-mail me a playlist or what your talking about. if your talking about an MC9 play list would you not need the files first?

I was thinking about allowing this to be saved in Excel format so you can do what ever you want with the list.

currently it gets the chart highest possion, song, and artist name. I was thinking about adding the Chart name it was on. this way if you did a batch you will know what chart it was on.

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2003, 04:33:35 am »

I could think of a number of charts trhat would be useful. NME charts, Radio 1 rock chart. I will find the URLs

Adam

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2003, 04:46:20 am »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/ UK Top 40 page
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/albums.shtml UK Top 40 Albums

nila · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2003, 09:03:15 am »

I usually have most the songs though and if I dont I can get them easily.

Maybe even try to find the songs for me, if u cant find them in my library then compose a list of songs that are missing that I need in order to have the full chart

KingSparta · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2003, 09:52:51 am »

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I usually have most the songs though and if I dont I can get them easily.

Maybe even try to find the songs for me, if u cant find them in my library then compose a list of songs that are missing that I need in order to have the full chart

sorry thats not going to happen

I think exporting them to a file and you can do with what you want with it, is about as far as i am going to go with that.

JaWe · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2003, 10:19:05 am »

Looks and sounds good!!!

Can you also make option to select tag where you want to save found info?
So that you can select for example notes field or a custom field instead of overwriting comment tags.

KingSparta · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2003, 10:57:05 am »

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Looks and sounds good!!!

Can you also make option to select tag where you want to save found info?
So that you can select for example notes field or a custom field instead of overwriting comment tags.

I don't know what your talking about.

this has nothing to do with the comment field

if your talking about My other program it has nothing to do with this one. and what your asking for Chart, Lyrics, Bios And Coverart Finder Already Does.

nila · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2003, 12:36:39 pm »

So are those all the billboard charts or what?

it'd be more useful as a stand alone program so I could have the chart list next to me as I'm using MC to create the playlists.

Wobbley · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2003, 12:37:09 pm »

KingSparta,

Love your work, baby (bad Kojak impersonation)! How possible is this:

A plugin that, when you select an artist name from the "Album Artist (auto)" or "Artist" column in the top View Scheme panes, displays (somewhere on the screen, or "automagically" creates a new playlist) similar artists? You know, kinda like Amazon does with the "Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for these items", only I don't care about what other people bought (and that info would be difficult to obtain), I would just like to see some suggestions for related artists. Do you think you could swing this? I'm a coder too (VB, C++, C#), but don't have enought time to fully develop, but would be happy to assist of wanted/needed.

Cheers!

Wobbley

KingSparta · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2003, 01:06:23 pm »

>> similar artists?
well you would need a database that would have been labled by someone who is a similar artist.

maybe this if you click on the list send you to amazon to buy the song and artist and let amazon tell you who is similar.

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2003, 03:07:16 pm »

Ok

I Updated The Picture Above

Listed In this Order

[Current Pos] - [Peaked At] - [SongName] - [ArtistName]

If you select A Song\Artist You Can Now Press "Buy" and it will Take You To Amazon.com Using The Artist name And Song name As A Search Parm.

It Now Will Also Export The List To Excel Format

Any Other Ideas?

If It Makes Sence And I Can Do It I Will Add It.

nila · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2003, 12:42:06 am »

any possibility of instead of having:

Name - Artist like it is now,
having it split to seperate columns for each?
I just find it a LOT clearer to work with and read. I can browse down one column to look at the artist and one for the track name.

Right now it means scanning left and right as well to find the start of the name

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:06:11 am »

This is looking very good King but please could you add support fo the Uk charts? I will send you any relevant URLs and you could presumably then parse the webpages to find the relevant content

Cheers

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #16 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:26:19 am »

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any possibility of instead of having:

Name - Artist like it is now,
having it split to seperate columns for each?
I just find it a LOT clearer to work with and read. I can browse down one column to look at the artist and one for the track name.

Right now it means scanning left and right as well to find the start of the name

I might get to this today or tomorrow, i already had this planed.

KingSparta · « **Reply #17 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:27:50 am »

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This is looking very good King but please could you add support fo the Uk charts?

maybe

let me get this into cols and then i will look at the UK thing.

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:34:16 am »

Last night I added Auto Load Database It Into Excel On Export (User Selectable).

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2003, 02:38:22 am »

Nice one. Let me know as soon as you need the data. I know of a good UK rock chart as well...

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2003, 10:46:48 am »

Well Any Charts Anyone Has Please Send Them To My In Private Mail.

At Any Rate Nila Check Out The Updated Picture It Now Has Col's

Anyone Have Any other Ideas?

I Should Maybe Pack This up And Put it Up For Download Tomorrow I Think.

UK Charts Will Follow Soon (I think) I May Add Tabs

[USA Charts][UK Charts][ETC....]

drosoph · « **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2003, 12:15:49 pm »

Alright, when do we get to test ?

KingSparta · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2003, 04:21:32 pm »

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Alright, when do we get to test ?

Maybe tomorrow

Note The New Picture Above

At any rate

1. Added 1, 5, 10, 15 years ago
2. If Under 10 Added A "0" in front Of Peek
3. added the 1, 5, 10, 15 years ago to the batch (note there is now 420 songs in the database after a batch)
4. Added Year

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one thing i noticed the 1, 5, 10, 15 years ago has another format so i had to make the program a bit smarter and detect the change in the HTML. right now it download the HTML and then trims it down and then looks for the data. if the wrong format it redownloads a fresh HTML then goes to format 2. tomorrow I will try to make it a bit smarter and only download the HTML once.

KingSparta · « **Reply #23 on:** June 21, 2003, 04:31:06 am »

I had an idea to allow you when you select a song, copy the artist name and song name to the clipboard.

This will allow you to use this in other search engines.

i will put that in when i get home from work.

also last night i made sure this all fits into a 800x600 window

if you can see in the window a program "Cover Art Finder" this is the only thing it does is find cover art. it also has a few bug fixes that are not in chart, lyrics, bios and cover art finder yet. if i can get to it i may put that out today also.

Current Picture:

KingSparta · « **Reply #24 on:** June 21, 2003, 08:48:46 am »

Ok Here It Is, Let Me Know If It InStalls And Works.

http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/mcplugins.pl?type=10&start=0&end=10&page=1

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #25 on:** June 21, 2003, 12:42:40 pm »

Thanks King. The single module Cover Art Finder would be great too...

Just a question...do your installers include runtime files? Only they always seem quite large...

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #26 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:18:05 pm »

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do your installers include runtime files?

yes, but if you go to my web site i placed the OCX file on there when there is an update you can just replace the old OCX file.

chart grabber needed excel MS Office runtime files thats why it is a bit large

so you don't need to download the whole big ass file. i think the Chart finder OCX is is about 560k and Chart Grabber Is Like 440+k

I have a FTP and HTTP Server you can get files from

But a better question is.

does chart grabber work for you?

My Sites:
http://www.spartasoft.com/
http://home.nc.rr.com/mycddblookup/index.html

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #27 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:47:47 pm »

I will let ya know. I am just about to try it. Have been mastering a CD for my 9 year old cousin. What a bloody racket!!

Adam

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #28 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:57:49 pm »

Works well but something I noticed. All the "years ago" are album charts...should they be? If so ignore me

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #29 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:02:47 pm »

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Works well but something I noticed. All the "years ago" are album charts...should they be? If so ignore me

Adam

I did not notice, I can add some more charts.

nila · « **Reply #30 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:51:50 pm »

looks alot better with the columns

I'm gonna give it a try on monday when I get back to my PC.

KingSparta · « **Reply #31 on:** June 22, 2003, 01:54:54 am »

Ok, Now It Is At Version 0.0.04

It Now Has USA Top Singles, And USA Top Albums Tabs

See Updated Picture.

KingSparta · « **Reply #32 on:** June 22, 2003, 09:27:09 am »

Ok I Just Got Done Adding The UK top 40 From 1953 To Current 2003.

Updated The Picture and uploaded a New Build

KingSparta · « **Reply #33 on:** June 22, 2003, 01:58:22 pm »

I just made some changes in the program..

I ran a test and batched the program it seems the MS office control I am using does not like it when you try to save like 15,000+ lines in the spread sheet.

So when you do a batch and you have export on it now will save the databases for each Chart Button using the button name.

So you can still batch all the lists if you want but the data will be saved in separate files.

nila · « **Reply #34 on:** July 01, 2003, 01:19:14 am »

Hey

Just playing with this a bit.
Lovely - any chance of making the size of this resizeable?
I have 1600x1200 and it's lovely but ur plugin hides in a tiny little corner so I have to scroll the list etc instead of seeing it big and proud with the full list on the screen

KingSparta · « **Reply #35 on:** July 01, 2003, 02:51:46 am »

that is just a picture if thats what your talking about

the program is resizable

if your talking about the MC9 plug-in it will resize later.

I am working on the New Chat program download link above, when done it will replace the other.

this is basicly to see if it worked and it does so i need to add some options and get it ready to port to MC9.

nila · « **Reply #36 on:** July 01, 2003, 11:57:14 am »

nah, I meant the actual program/plugin itself.

It's a fixed size and I was wondering if I could resize it

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