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Introduction
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Why MusicMuster?
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In January 2022 I started my show on `Mixcloud
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<https://www.mixcloud.com/KeithsMusicBox/>`. Until then, my show had
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been on an internet radio station which required me to use a Windows
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playout system. As I only use Linux, I had to set up a Windows PC
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specifically for that purpose. The system I had to use had what I felt
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were shortcomings in various areas.
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Once I moved to Mixcloud I searched for a Linux equivalent that didn't
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have the same shortcomings but was unable to find one that met my
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criteria. I decided to see how practical it would be to write my own,
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and MusicMuster was born.
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What is MusicMuster?
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It is a Linux-based music player. Whilst it could be used as a general
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home music player, there are much better applications for that role.
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**MusicMuster** has been specifically designed to support the
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production of live internet radio shows.
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Features
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* Database backed
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* Can be almost entirely keyboard driven
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* Playlist management
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* Easily add new tracks to playlists
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* Show multiple playlists on tabs
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* Play tracks from any playlist
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* Add notes/comments to tracks on playlist
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* Automataic olour-coding of notes/comments according to content
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* Preview tracks before playing to audience
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* Time of day clock
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* Elapsed track time counter
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* Time to run until track starts to fade
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* Time to run until track is silent
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* Graphic of volume from 5 seconds (configurable) before fade until
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track is silent
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* Ability to hide played tracks in playlist
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* Buttone to drop playout volume by 3dB for talkover
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* Playlist displays:
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* Title
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* Artist
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* Length of track (mm:ss)
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* Estimated start time of track
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* Estimated end time of track
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* When track was last played
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* Bits per second (bps bitrate) of track
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* Length of silence in recording before music starts
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* Total track length of arbitrary sections of tracks
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* Commands that are sent to OBS Studio (eg, for automated scene
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changes)
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* Playlist templates
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* Move selected/unplayed tracks between playlists
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* Down CSV of played tracks between arbitrary dates/times
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* Search for tracks by title or artist
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* Automatic search of current/next track in Wikipedia
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* Optional search of selected track in Wikipedia
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* Optional search of selected track in Songfacts
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Requirements
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.. note:: MusicMuster has only been tested on Debian 12, "Bookworm";
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however, it should run on most contemporary Linux systems.
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The :doc:`installation` page explains how to build MusicMuster in its
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own environment which will automatcally install all requirements
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except the database. The current version of MusicMuster uses MariaDB
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version 10.11; however, any recent version of MariaDB should suffice.
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MusicMuster is a Python 3 application and requires Python 3.8 or
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later.
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Feedback, bugs, etc
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Please send to keith@midnighthax.com
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Keith Edmunds,
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July 2023
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