WaffleBrainz

By Wizzcat Last update Feb 6, 2008 — Installed 10,945 times.


Script Summary: WaffleBrainz helps you create good album descriptions with the help of MusicBrainz and Amazon, with as little fuss as possible.

Version: 0.50

The currently supported trackers are waffles.fm and what.cd. If you would like me to support your tracker, feel free to contact me at peroyo at gmail.com. Of course I can't stop you from modifying it yourself (it's licensed under WTFPL), but I would prefer if you contacted me first so I can support your tracker officially.

WaffleBrainz also supports Opera since version 0.50. The way in which this is accomplished is by using a proxy on my webspace. This is however terribly insecure, and it potentially allows me to steal your cookies/passkey. I can promise you that I won't do this of course, and my webspace is more than secure enough, but you can never be 100% sure. The script is ~10 lines of php using curl, so if your tracker of choice wants to host it locally, you're more than welcome to do so. Just throw me a mail and I'll send you the script.

If you have any other suggestions for improvement I'm all ears, just be aware that a lot of things aren't that easy to accomplish, especially since I want to continue to support Opera (my browser of choice).

Lastly, thanks a lot to musicbrainz.org for making a terrific api and a fantastic database. If you can't find your album I very much suggest you add it to musicbrainz so others can benefit from you. Just be sure to follow the rather stringent editing rules. ;)


Screenshot from WaffleBrainz 0.5

Changelog:
v0.50
  • add: Opera support(!).
  • add: native what.cd support.
  • add: album cover preview.
  • add: non-album release type added to album title ([EP], [Live], etc.).
  • add: optional wb plug at the end of the description.
  • add: label data.
  • change: uses large amazon images.
  • change: description layout.
  • change: album dropdown sorted by alpha.
  • change: new layout.
  • fix: intelligently parses release date, hopefully no more inadvertent JP/AU.
  • fix: a few bugs related to multidisc releases, should be quite flawless now.
  • fix: lots of other things I've forgotten.
v0.20b
  • add: searching by album name.
  • add: support for multidisc releases.
  • add: searching by torrentfile name (for lazy people).
v0.10
  • Initial release.