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Hope you guys like it. We've got a major update in the works too, as well as an Android app. All free and open source.

Hello,

I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something? Thanks

EDIT: Using Windows 7

i've never had success with spotify and tomahawk on windows. last time i tried, i could occasionally find stuff, but playback hardly worked.

That's a shame as that would be where most of my music came from.

If I hadn't already spent countless hours battling the Spotify API I'd attempt to help...

You say it's open source?

Is there a link to where developers can learn how to help with development and or use the player for their own projects?

Sure, you can always find us on irc.freenode.net channel #tomahawk

I like the idea, would it be possible to add YouTube support (or does that maybe already exist)? (Of course, only playing the audio part and ignoring the video)

There is a working resolver here: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers/tree/m...

Mind you, it does require Tomahawk's latest nightlies / git version.

You can find pre-packaged versions of all our resolvers (updated nightly) here: http://teom.org/axes/nightly/ - just use "Install from file" in Tomahawk's settings and pick the .axe file.

We love it as usual :) Good work.

Does it support local files?

It does, of course. You can mix your local library with Spotify, SoundCloud and many more.

Is it identifying song names by file metadata, binary fingerprints, audio fingerprints?

At the moment we are just supporting file metadata but we will hopefully add audio fingerprints soon.

AcoustID maybe?

It's currently identifying songs by meta-data only. There is an audio fingerprinter (using Last.fm's service) in the works, but as you can imagine that only solves part of the problem: getting fingerprints for data from all the various supported sources is a lot harder.

You may want to add a "local files" icon in the Multi-Source section of the home page.

I noticed if I search "Zappa" it only shows one album that have artist name exactly "Zappa".

Would be nice if it also showed the other albums by "Frank Zappa"...

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