DropTheBeat 0.0.1

Music sharing using Dropbox.

DropTheBeat

Music sharing using Dropbox.

Features

• Recommend songs to friends

• Get a list of songs shared by friends

• Download the songs to your computer

Getting Started

Requirements

• Python 3

Installation

DropTheBeat can be installed with pip or easy_install:

pip install DropTheBeat

Or directly from the source code:

python setup.py install

Initial Setup

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

2. Share this folder with your friends

Graphical Interface

Start the app:

DropTheBeat

Command-line Inteface

Create your user folder:

dtb --new <FirstLast>

Recommend a song to friends:

dtb --share <path/to/a/song>
dtb --share <path/to/a/song> --users JohnDoe JaneDoe

Display recommended songs:

dtb --incoming
dtb --outoing

Download recommended songs:

dtb
dtb --daemon

Launch the GUI:

dtb --gui

For Developers

Requirements

• GNU Make (or Cygwin Make): http://www.gnu.org/software/make/

• Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

• virtualenv: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

Environment

make develop  # creates the virtualenv

make doc  # runs documentation generation
make pep8  # runs pep8 analysis
make pylint  # runs pylint
make check  # runs all of the above

make test  # runs the unit tests
make tests  # runs the integration tests

make gui  # launch the GUI from the virtualenv