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funkyg / funkytunes

A streaming music player for Android, using torrents.
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Funkytunes disabled in FDroid :( #11

Closed funkyg closed 7 years ago

funkyg commented 7 years ago

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.github.funkyg.funkytunes

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/728

Maybe we have to move back to Github releases and own update checker :/

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure why I did it but: https://github.com/gjedeer/fdroid-repo/blob/master/README.md

funkyg commented 7 years ago

Wow youre fast. They are already discussing enabling it, so i would just wait for their decision. If they decide against it, having a seperate fdroid repo might be a good idea. But it also might be too complicated to set up, dunno.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/2237

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

I hope they decide to include it in F-Droid again. It's strange to see them being scared of including an app because it may be used to commit a crime while hosting csploit is perfectly fine. Looks more like Google behavior than that of an independent project. I can't blame them but it sucks.

About the separate repo, if there was an easy way to scan a QR code inside F-Droid and have the repo added, that would be awesome. It's a bit complicated as it is, I agree.

funkyg commented 7 years ago

They suggested to replace the charts with a list of creative commons licensed music. See my comment there.

But i dont really like to show cc music that no one knows. I think the best option is distributing the apk ourselves, with an integrated updater. Same thing popcorn time is doing.

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

Yeah, that would suck (btw, idea for an alternative source of top100 albums: https://thepiratebay.org/top/101 )

Could you make the auto updater an option that can be disabled on build-time? It makes perfect sense for a lay person to use the autoupdater but personally I'd rather not use it.

funkyg commented 7 years ago

Ah thats really cool, because it guarantees that the album is actually available for download. Right now a lot of albums wont even play. Only problem is that those albums arent clearly tagged with artist, album name and cover.

For the update check, i would just show a dialog when a new version is available, with a link to the download page (so no automatic update). We could also add a setting to disable update checks. Does that sound good?

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

For the update checks: sounds okay, though Github API doesn't return any releases - https://api.github.com/repos/funkyg/funkytunes/releases/latest and https://api.github.com/repos/funkyg/funkytunes/releases - wondering if it's because

Draft releases and prereleases are not returned by this endpoint.

For TPB as source: I opened top 10 albums and 6 out of 10 had something like this in the description:

Artist : Future
Album : FUTURE
Title: Despacito (feat. Daddy Yankee)
Artist: Luis Fonsi
Album: Despacito (feat. Daddy Yankee) - Single

The downside is: lots of HTTP requests do find out the descriptions.

funkyg commented 7 years ago

looks like they werent listed as releases because they didnt have a title, i set that and it works now. I reverted 682297bcfed7b1d10a0a72feaf644d4aa364e05c to enable the update check again. Should i also add a setting to disable update checks?

And scraping pirate bay like that sounds extremely fragile, i dont like it at all. It also doesnt have any covers. Maybe we could search the pirate bay title via discogs, and take the first result from there? No idea how well that would work though.

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

Maybe the setting is not needed now.

TPB: I entered a few titles manually (without any kind of sanitization, with [MP3_320] etc) and it worked good. Should we move TPB discussion to #1 maybe?

funkyg commented 7 years ago

Yeah #1 is a better place.

Regarding downloads, i will just put the previous download button back in (pointing to github releases), and upload the latest apk on github releases.

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

Maybe point it to the latest release? 'html_url' key in /releases/latest JSON.

funkyg commented 7 years ago

im just pointing it to https://github.com/funkyg/funkytunes/releases/latest

gjedeer commented 7 years ago

Any idea wtf is going on with fdroid? Looks like it's gone again but couldn't find any comments on it in fdroiddata...

funkyg commented 7 years ago

apparently they moved it to the archive, so its only available if you enable that in the settings. And they dont build any new versions. i guess because they arent sure if its legal?

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

I've just stumbled upon this issue checking for the status of the project (it's in my repo currently). Checking the history of the metadata file in F-Droid I wonder if the Archive Policy:0 versions (which is responsible for the fact your app is only available in archive) wasn't left there in error after clarifying the status.

Is your project still alive, @funkyg (there was no commit for about 1.5 years, hence I wonder)? Then I could see whether we bring it back to the main repo.

gjedeer commented 5 years ago

Not him but I will answer: I'm not working on it, I guess funkyg isn't either. F-Droid wasn't too keen on keeping it in the main repo -> it doesn't have users -> not really maintained. Hell, noone noticed that the skytorrents scraper isn't working for a long long time and all it takes to fix it is to change the TLD (.in to .lol)

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

@gjedeer thanks for your answer! There was no "bad intent" behind the actions at F-Droid – we must of course take care our content is legit, and probably someone was rather "extra-careful". Nobody noticed the archive policy, though, it seems – like nobody noticed that scraper to be "out of sync with reality".

So maybe I add a notice in my repo that your app currently isn't actively maintained (meaning no active development – but issues are answered and PRs would be processed). That OK with you? Guess there's no need anymore for action on the main repo then – but of course I could try to get at least the latest version back to the main repo if you wish. That'd just need to update the archive policy from 0 to 1 (1 version in main, rest in archive).