Feature request: Additional services, especially lastfm

[inktrap]

How hard would it be to add additional services? I am thinking of last.fm here. More sites are listed here, for example.

A lot of music is also on e.g. youtube. However, I guess you want to keep musiccard strictly limited to music. The outdated MediaEmbed-Plugin supported youtube and vimeo. However, given the fact that mediaembed is the successor of embed and videoembed, it seems complicated/a lot of work to support multiple video hosting sites. After searching around a little bit I found the vimeo plugin and the youtube plugin, so musiccard, vimeo and youtube could work well with each other.

[hmhrex]

MusicCard was originally written to use in a blog setting where you could quickly see metadata and play the song or album (from multiple sources) when it was referenced.

There were a few reasons I narrowed down the choices to Bandcamp, Spotify and SoundCloud:

• Last.fm does have metadata (including artwork), but has no audio source.
• YouTube doesn't have consistent metadata, and I believe separating audio from video (not displaying the video on the card) is against their ToS.
• Vimeo is in the same boat as YouTube.

Here are some that I wouldn't mind supporting in the future if there was interest:

• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Tidal

However, this project isn't really active as there hasn't been a great amount of interest. If you want to fork it, or create pull requests on it, be my guest!

[inktrap]

I'll keep that in mind and will check out deezer and tidal first. :) Mmh, last.fm indeed only includes the info :(

[hmhrex]

@inktrap That being said, if you want to fork this project and use it as a base to make something more like MediaEmbed, you are more than welcome 😊

[inktrap]

Yes, i read that between the lines ;) however I want to finish other projects first and I'll see how far I get with the plugins mentioned in the first comment. ;) Thanks though!