Mufi 🐜

Mufi is a command-line music finder written in Python with a bit of Javascript. It is capable of finding albums of various styles, genres, moods (even random, using command-line args). Basically, it uses Allmusic and Last.fm to get brief music information.

Mufi comes with two command-line tools:

1. mufi: finding albums by style, genre, date, mood.
2. mufi-recs: getting personal recommendations from Last.fm.

Dependencies

Mufi depends heavily on Selenium and Chrome WebDriver.

Installation

pip install mufi

Or you can install from this git repo:

pip install git+https://github.com/maximtrp/mufi

To use mufi-recs command, you need to provide your Last.fm login data. Mufi reads it from ~/.lastfm and ~/.config/mufi/.lastfm files. Just say:

echo login password > ~/.lastfm

Usage

mufi

$ mufi -h
usage: mufi [-h] [-d DATE] [-g GENRE] [-m MOODS] [-n ALBUMS_NUM] [-r RATING]
            [-s STYLE] [-v] [-o {album,year,rating}] [-x] [--and] [--asc]
            [-k SAMPLE_NUM] [--random-album] [--random-style] [--random-genre]

Mufi finds albums by style, genre, date, or mood 🐜

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DATE               date interval, e.g. 2010-2019
  -g GENRE              genres, e.g. rock electronic
  -m MOODS              moods, e.g. sad
  -n ALBUMS_NUM         number of albums to get (default: 1)
  -r RATING             rating interval (1-5), e.g. "3.5 5"
  -s STYLE              styles, e.g. "blues rock,indie"
  -v                    verbose

sorting/matching arguments:
  -o {album,year,rating}
                        sorting criteria
  -x                    strictness level for style/genre matching
  --and                 AND logic (default is OR logic)
  --asc                 ascending sort

randomizer arguments:
  -k SAMPLE_NUM         number of random styles/genres to get (default: 1)
  --random-album        get random album
  --random-style        get random style
  --random-genre        get random genre

mufi-recs

$ mufi-recs -h
usage: mufi-recs [-h] [-a] [-l] [-n NUMBER] [-o ORDERBY] [-s] [-v]

Mufi fetches your recommendations from last.fm 🐜

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -a          recommended artists (default)
  -l          recommended albums
  -n NUMBER   results number
  -o ORDERBY  sort by: none, random (default), name, listeners
  -s          show similar/context
  -v          verbose

Examples

Defaults

If executed without arguments, mufi selects a random style and fetches just one album from Allmusic.

$ mufi
Dierks Bentley - Up on the Ridge (2010) ⋆⋆⋆⋆

Selecting 3 random styles and 5 random albums

$ mufi --random-style -k 3 -n 5
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1982) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (1983) ⋆⋆⋆⋆
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) ⋆⋆⋆
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams (1988) ⋆⋆⋆⋆
The Avett Brothers - Magpie and the Dandelion (2013) ⋆⋆⋆

It will not output the names of styles that were selected randomly. To get all this info, you need to use -vv flag. See below.

Verbosity

You can tell mufi to be verbose (albums list will become numbered, and artist names will be in bold style):

$ mufi -v
[1] Kenny Neal - Hooked On Your Love (2010) ⋆⋆⋆

Or even more verbose (mufi will tell you what it is doing):

$ mufi -vv
Selected styles: Indie Rock

[1] The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) ⋆⋆⋆⋆

Getting random albums of certain styles

$ mufi -s "blues rock" -n 5 -vv
Selected styles: Blues-Rock

[1] The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (1967) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
[2] The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
[3] The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love (1967) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
[4] Jimi Hendrix / The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits (1969) ⋆⋆⋆⋆
[5] Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997) ⋆⋆⋆⋆

Strictness level

Let's begin with a simple example.

$ mufi -s "afro" -vv
Selected styles: Afro-Brazilian OR Afro-Peruvian OR Afro-Pop OR Afro-beat OR Afro-Cuban Jazz OR Afro-Colombian OR Afro-Cuban

[1] Vinicius Cantuária / Bill Frisell - Lágrimas Mexicanas (2011) ⋆⋆⋆⋆

We just passed one word "afro" and mufi selected all the styles that at least partially matched it. Mufi can behave a bit smarter. There are 5 strictness levels for style/genre matching. Here is the whole search algorithm works. First, the input string is split by a comma or semicolon (if any). We get a list of substrings for matching styles/genres. Next, the searching function tries to match each style in database to each of these substrings using the strictness level:

• Default: substring is further split by non-word characters and if anything

See the following examples. Selecting all styles that contain afro substring:

Selecting just Afro-pop:

$ mufi -s "afro pop" -vv
Selected styles: Afro-Pop

[1] Fela Kuti - Koola Lobitos/The '69 Los Angeles Sessions (2001) ⋆⋆⋆⋆