Album Manager GUI

Website where I push my personal albums.json file.

https://dev.jmux.se/albums

Description

This is a graphical user interface (GUI) application for managing a list of music albums. The user can add, remove, and update albums, and view the list of all albums. The application is built using PyQt5 and stores the list of albums in a file called 'albums.json'.

FTP upload feature enables to push albums.json to a webserver. Index.html & javascript to load json data to website also uploaded.

Fun fact: Started as a try-out for coding with chatGPT-3 but grew bigger.

Figure 1 - Run MusicGUI.py graphical user interface to manipulate JSON

Figure 2 - Web server loading albums.json

Figure 3 - Transmit albums.json over FTP by GUI button "Upload json to website"

File locations

cridentials.txt contains FTP login cridentials. AUR location /usr/lib/album-manager-gui/cridentials.txt

albums.json contains album data - IMPORTANT! Uninstalling through pacman will delete this file. Make a backup if you want to save it. AUR location /usr/lib/album-manager-gui/albums.json

Change log

2023-02-05 v.1.2.0

• Added musicbrainz api album search feature
• Improved output field layout

2023-01-15 v.1.0.0

• Added PKGBUILD AUR installer

2023-01-13 v0.0.0

• Added website files, albums in albums.json file are loaded to html with javascript
• Added FTP upload feature from button in the GUI
• Minimum table width reduced in GUI

2023-01-07 v0.0.0

• Begin to write code on GUI

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or above
• PyQt5
• json

Installation method 1 - Run Python from source

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/joeraven0/album-manager-gui.git

2. Install the dependencies

pip install pyqt5 json

3. Setup FTP cridentials in cridentials.txt (optional for publishing online)

• cridentials.txt

4. Upload to web server (optional for publishing online)

• index.html
• styles.css
• albums.js
• albums.json (or upload through gui)

5. Run the script

python MusicGUI.py

Installation method 2 - Install from Arch AUR package

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/joeraven0/album-manager-gui.git

2. Install the dependencies

pip install pyqt5 json

3. Build the package

makepkg

4. Install

pacman -U album-manager-gui-X.X-X-any.pkg.tar.zst

5. Set your FTP-cridentials (optional)

nano /usr/lib/album-manager-gui/cridentials.txt

Usage

1. Enter the artist, title, year, and number of copies in stock for the album you want to add.
2. Click the "Add album" button to add the album to the list.
3. To remove an album, select the album in the table and click the "Remove album" button.
4. To update an album, select the album in the table, make the necessary changes in the input fields, and click the "Update album" button.
5. To view the list of all albums, click the "Print All Albums" button.
6. Upload through FTP, click the "Upload json to website" button. (optional)

License

Free for everyone, always. Microsoft have to pay.