#musicbrainz

ruaok: did you fix it?

he did

I just entered a bunch of edits, searching included (naturally)

is there a log to see what was done?

no

it was an infrastructure change, no doubt

ruaok is Employee #0 of MetaBrainz/MusicBrainz

(infrastructure fix, that is)

tl;dr he worked some sysadmin magic

VxJasonxV: ah ok, i see. thanks

Lower the global request limit. Stop one search server. Restart the other. Wait for its panic attack to subside. Restart the other. Raise global limit. Roll over. Woof.

that's not napping ruaok

unless you've mastered sleep-working. in which case, teach me your ways, master

:-)

ruaok: so that sounds like tuning nginx, rather than perl

Well, since coffee was handed to me in bad, the tradition begins.

sampsyo: For the AcousticBrainz P1, do you want low level, high level, or just a structure to jump off from where that is changeable?

chrisb: it is either nginx, our network setup or the search servers. We've been at this process for 3 months now.

We've made some fixes, but nothing that vanquishes the problem.

We now collect stack traces every 60 seconds when shit goes wrong.

Today I need to start sifting through those.

opatel99: Good question—I'm not 100% sure, but I think fetching high-level might be a good place to start.

sampsyo: What is the end goal for the AcousticBrainz plugin?

The first goal is to just fetch interesting data from AB and store in the beets database (almost exactly like the current Echo Nest plugin).

Later, we can look into also using it to submit data.

sampsyo: How do I add a plugin to beets? The /usr/bin/beet is not directory

Have you seen this page in the docs? http://docs.beets.io/en/v1.3.16/dev/plugins.html

yeah I saw that, but I didn't understand how to import it into beets.

Do i use pluginpath

Ah; you'll need to set the `pluginpath` in the config file.

Yep.

sampsyo:

Is that ok?

Yep, as long as `plugins` contains a directory called `beetsplug`.

Then you might want to add the name of your new plugin to the `plugins:` line.

sampsyo: Just like plugins: echonest acousticbrainz

Exactly.

Why does it work without beetsplug directory?

What do you mean?

I just have plugins/echonest

and beet echonest works

Well I think it does, it's uploading something

Well, echonest is a built-in plugin.

So it's getting loaded from where beets is installed, not your pluginpath.

Oh ok

sampsyo: Where in echonest.py is it stated that beet echonest calls that function. Right now, I just moved echonest to plugins/beetsplug/ and renamed it to acoustic.py

To test that I got the config right

Where is the function invoked for the `beet echonest` command, you mean?

In the `commands` method of the plugin class: https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/blob/master/be...

sampsyo: Once I change acoustic.py to have 'acoustic' in commands method, is there anything else preventing me from running `beet acoustic`

That should do it.

error: unknown command 'acoustic'

(as long as the plugin is getting loaded)

Can you show me your current code?

(perhaps in a gist?)

same as echonest.py except changed echonest to acoustic on line 466

Just trying to test the custom config right now by using a plugin that already works

Hmm; in my file, line 466 doesn't have the word "echonest" in it?

466's command. 467 sorry

Ah, that should be fine. Are you getting any errors about loading the plugin?

Just unknown command

Does `beet version` show the new plugin is loaded?

** plugin acoustic not found

Yep, that's the error I was referring to.

that's it

So, is there a `beetsplug/acoustic.py` in the directory referred to by your `pluginpath`?

Yep

I took it out of beetsplug and it loaded

Really? That's mysterious…

it loaded in beet version but beet acoustic doesn't recognize it

Can you use my terminal with tmate?

Sure; let's give it a try.

(one moment; I'll need to install tmate)

Same ^^ haha. First time doing this

:)

OK, I'm in business.

sampsyo: I get access denied. Check your ssh keys

Hmm; maybe you need to generate an SSH key? `ssh-keygen`

Got it

My ssh key was named something else

Ah, cool.

Well, the keyboard is a little laggy, but this should work!

this lag :/

:)

Thanks

You're welcome!

Thanks for being with the weird setup stuff.

*bearing

Now I have tmate too. how laggy is it?

It wasn't so bad after the first few lines -- I had to slow down my typing a little, but nothing catastrophic.

It still doesn't read from /beetsplug/ hmm

Yeah, maybe I was just wrong about that? My memory…

sampsyo: How do you want me to output the acousticbrainz json?

Well, we don't need to display it in the console—the goal is just to save the data in attributes on the music.

hmm. and echonest currently does that?

Yes, exactly.

sampsyo: Which attributes?

Well, that's not 100% clear. Maybe we can leave it up to you to pick a few "interesting" ones, and we can come back and expand the set later if we want to?

Sure