DropTheBeat 1.0

Music sharing using Dropbox.

Unix: Windows: Metrics: Usage:

Overview

Recommend songs to your friends and download their shared files to your computer.

Features

• Recommend songs to your friends

• Get a list of songs shared by your friends

• Download the songs to your computer

Setup

Requirements

• Python 3.3+

Installation

Install DropTheBeat with pip:

$ pip install DropTheBeat

or directly from the source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/jacebrowning/dropthebeat.git
$ cd dropthebeat
$ python setup.py install

Configuration

1. Create a folder named ‘DropTheBeat’ in your Dropbox

2. Share this folder with your friends

Usage

Graphical Interface

Start the application:

$ DropTheBeat

Command-line Interface

Create your user folder:

$ dtb --new <"First Last">

Recommend a song to friends:

$ dtb --share <path/to/a/song>
$ dtb --share <path/to/a/song> --users "John Doe" "Jane Doe"

Display recommended songs:

$ dtb --incoming
$ dtb --outoing

Download recommended songs:

$ dtb
$ dtb --daemon

Launch the GUI:

$ dtb --gui

Revision History

1.0 (2016/08/01)

• Switched license to MIT.

• Added Windows support.

0.2.1 (2015/12/30)

• Fixed launching the GUI via dtb --gui.

0.2 (2015/12/30)

• Added a --home option to specify a custom home directory.

0.1 (2015/01/20)

• Added the sharing location to the GUI.

• Added scrollbars to the GUI.

• Fixed additional bugs.

0.0.6 (2014/01/25)

• General cleanup and bug fixes.

0.0.5 (2013/12/07)

• Fixed a bug in the GUI for old info.yml format.

0.0.4 (2013/12/06)

• With the CLI, dtb.log is created with the downloads.

0.0.3 (2013/11/26)

• Bug fixes. Better handling of empty directories.

0.0.2 (2013/11/25)

• Now supporting multiple users and download paths.

0.0.1 (2013/11/22)

• Initial release.