[Request] Headphones (Music) Integration

[hthighway]

in your spare time :) maybe look into adding headphones (https://github.com/rembo10/headphones) for Music requests

[lokenx]

Thanks for the suggestion! Personally I don't use Headphones as it simply never seems to work...however I see the appeal!

Before adding headphone integration, I want to allow people to select which categories (Movie, TV, etc) they want to show. For example maybe they only do TV or Movies, and don't want people requesting the other (for example I probably wouldn't make headphones an option to my users).

Once that's done, headphones can be integrated as an option!

[Foebik]

I have Headphones installed. Even paid extra for their tracker. Doesn't really do anything. I have gotten a handful of albums using it.

The problem as I see it is there is just no good naming convention for songs and albums that the program can reliably use to track and find what you want. Unlike TV shows or Movies, were most up-loaders will enter in commonly used naming convention, music comparatively is like the wild west for naming conventions.

While I wished it worked, I forget it is even running because it doesn't do much. I think this should be a low priority request.

[curlz620]

I really look forward to this. I use headphones and it works very well for me. I it is a very hit or miss program. I feel the same about CP as well. Either way this would be a really cool feature IMO.

[bobloadmire]

I second this request!

[jLemmings]

Would love a Headphones integration and would be glad to help out testing!

[lokenx]

v0.6 has been modularized with ability to turn on and off movies and tv shows, which now allows the adding of headphones.

It won't be added in v0.6, I don't want to delay it anymore, but it will be added.

[HamilcarH]

Would love headphones integration too !

[pengc99]

I, too, would love Headphones integration!

[SirGigantor]

anything exciting on the headphones front?

[lokenx]

I haven't forgotten!

[untotren]

+1 Plexrequests is incredible, headphone support is the cherry on top :)

[cmullins83]

Any updates? Super excited for this!

[speedyflipper]

?

[gbdoin]

+1, would love that as well!

[talisto]

I've started working on Headphones/music support in my own fork: https://github.com/talisto/plexrequests-meteor/tree/headphones

The album search uses the MusicBrainz API directly, so Headphones isn't actually required to have music requests.

The only major issue I've run into so far is that Headphones doesn't allow an album to be queued through the API unless both the artist and album already exist in the Headphones database (see issue here: https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/issues/2205), and due to MusicBrainz throttling lookups, adding an artist's entire catalog to the DB can take a loooong time. So when the "Request" button is clicked, if the artist isn't in the Headphones DB already, the request is potentially (or likely) going to time-out and fail.

I suppose the best solution might be to add the request to Plex Request's DB right away, and then process the Headphones API calls in a background task. I'll see if I can get that working.

EDIT: I updated my fork to use SyncedCron to run the Headphones queue. When adding an album, it will check to see if the artist exists in Headphones already, and if it doesn't exist it sets up a task to run in the background. That solves the biggest hurdle.

[hbooo]

Any news on a headphones integration? Would love to use headphone on plex requests!

[notlimahrelyt]

Bumping this one up again in hopes of getting music integration to PlexRequests!

I just recently discovered Headphones and implemented it using my Torznab indexers and its been working flawlessly. I'd love to be able to bring this to my shared users with PlexRequests.