Funkwhale @funkwhale@mastodon.eliotberriot.com

Funkwhale is building support for Artists and Podcasts

Soon, it will be possible to publish original music and podcasts to the fediverse from Funkwhale! https://wedistribute.org/2020/02/funkwhale-is-building-support-for-artists-and-podcasts/

@gwenn Hey, funkwhale is currently offered.

Plans are:
Small - 1 celery worker, 1 web thread, 50GB for $8USD/mo
Medium - 2 celery workers, 2 web, 100GB for $16USD/mo
Large - 4cw & 4web, 200GB $29USD/mo
Giant - 6cw & 6web 400GB $39USD/mo

Web threads are what respond to requests from your web browser, and celery workers are what handle background tasks such as federation. The more you have of both the faster your instance is.

Oh.

Audio federation from #Funkwhale to #Mastodon seem to work 🎉

And by work I mean: propely. Not with a bunch of hacks just to showcase it, like I did in december.

(posting more in a few minutes)

So I've included a full example in the video, in which you see me:

1. Creating a channel on https://channels.tests.funkwhale.audio (the development server with the latest channels-related code, https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/merge_requests/1033)
2. Copy the channel username from the #Funkwhale UI
3. Paste the username in Mastodon.social's search bar
4. Browse the corresponding profile in #Mastodon (with the channel cover and description)
4. Follow the channel in Mastodon
5. Publish two tracks in the channel, in Funkwhale's UI
6. Observe the corresponding tracks being displayed in Mastodon, with proper title and hashtags
7. After a while (there's a small delay in Mastodon), you can see the embedded player to listen to the tracks directly in Mastodon

Levels of excitement are rising!

5 days later, where are we?

Well, just published a round of updates to the creators UI (still not merged, but it's going smoothly, so I expect a merge this week) 🎉

All of this is detailed at https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/psEaAYN1/creators-test-group-podcast-channel-development/21, but basically:

- Better error handling during uploader
- Show processing progress once the "published" button is clicked
- Display the user quota in the upload modal
- Better attachment input (as designed by @mjourdan)
- Ability to create albums/series through the UI
- Ability to attach uploads to albums/series
- display track cover if any
- Added position field in metadata form
- Delete track through UI (go to track detail and click "more…") (@stef)
- Delete album through UI (go to track detail and click "more…") (@stef)
- Truncate/line break channel name when it's too long
- User-friendly urls for channel and RSS feed (/channels/mychannel instead of /channel/longrandomstring) (@stef)
- Fixed wording/missing update button when updating upload metadata (@unklebonehead)

I've also attached a video below in case you want to see how it renders in the UI.

Blog post week 2020-08: some podcasts news, and a meetup https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/blog-post-week-2020-08-some-podcasts-news-and-a-meetup/

🎶 🎶 Gonna start a revolution from my instance,
Coz <insert name> stood in my way with such insistence;
Look outside the internet's on fire.

Stand up now to big tech's disgrace,
Take your data off myspace,
Coz you weren't ever gonna own it anywaa-aay 🎶 🎶

Listen to all your favourite songs on the fedi's very own #Funkwhale. (Powered by #ActivityPub).

@funkwhale

#Music #MastoMonday

Ready for the @funkwhale meetup :3

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We're reaching another milestone today, with the possibility to upload content to a channel.

(again, sounds obvious, but it's still something that requires work ;)

I've included a video below to demo the feature (with the channel creation), but basically, I have a prototype uploader that supports:

- Choosing the channel were files should be published
- Picking a license
- Upload one or more files in parallel
- Populate metadata (such as title and hashtags) using the audio file embedded tags
- Edit metadata before submission (and without interrupting upload of other files
- "Finish later" option to upload files but do the actual publication later

All of this is showcased in the video below !

Forum thread: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/yZewa1x7/funkwhale-meetup-in-paris-february-15th-4-00-pm

## English

Hello there! The #Funkwhale crew is going to meet for the first time in Paris, on saturday 15th of this month.

We'd also like to have an open moment to meet people from the community. So if you're near Paris, and want to spend a moment with us, we'd be delighted to meet you!

We're still looking for an adequate place, but the gathering will start at 4PM. If you know a nice place where we could meet each other, please share :3

See you then!

## French

Hello ! L'équipe Funkwhale va se retrouver pour la première fois à Paris, le samedi 15 de ce mois.

Nous aimerions aussi en profiter pour organiser une rencontre plus ouverte avec les personnes de la communauté. Si vous êtes dans le coin et souhaitez passez un moment avec nous, ça nous ferait très plaisir !

Nous sommes toujours à la recherche d'un lieu adapté, mais la rencontre aura lieu à 16h. Si vous connaissez un endroit sympa en mesure de nous recevoir, manifestez vous :3

À très vite

Funkwhale Community Spotlight - Ginny https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Community/funkwhale-community-spotlight-ginny/

Today's work! It's now possible to create, update and manage podcasts through the UI!

Sounds quite obvious, but this was still missing :p

This went faster than expected, the whole thing was done donay.

I expect to move and fix some things once I have some feedback, but I'm confident I could have a working uploader prototype next week.

Meaning, even if it's not 100% complete, we'd cover the whole feature (creating a channel, publishing content in the channel, listen to the content in the channel within Funkwhale, subscribe to it via RSS).

Blog post week 2020-06: more funding and development news https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/blog-post-week-2020-06-more-funding-and-development-news/

Psst. If you're interested in #funkwhale why not check out https://tanukitunes.com ?

We offer free signup, a 5GB upload limit, and bleeding edge tracking of the development branch.

Beware, there may be bugs! But it helps us firm everything up for the next release.

This #Fosdem was full of interesting discussions and people, I'm looking forward to see you again!

(And thanks to @NGIZero for the stickers!)