Country fallback using MusicBrainz API

[reidosbares]

Hello!

I love explr, thanks for creating this

I created this little solution for the artists with missing country tags. It uses the MusicBrainz API as a fallback to fetch country data when Last.fm fails

MusicBrainz has a 1 request/second rate limit so this is done in the background while the list is loaded in parallel with the Last.fm process. I also added a little status indicator in the list of artists without a country for those that the process is currently trying to fetch from MusicBrainz

You can see it working on my own Github IO page: https://reidosbares.github.io/explr/

I hope you will consider adding this to explr!

And if this works, and you like it, please consider giving my own Last.fm project a shout-out as well: https://github.com/reidosbares/charts-fm

Thanks!

[reidosbares]

P.S. I also updated gulp-minify-css to gulp-clean-css because gulp-minify has been deprecated and was giving me build errors

[mold]

Thanks for chipping in! Will hopefully have time to check it out soon

[mold]

why did you delete this?

[mold]

does this need to be exported? Can it be moved to musicbrainz.js?

[mold]

I reviewed on my phone but it was a challenge, but fwiw here's a preliminary review:

At a glance it looks like some musicbrainz-specific code could be moved from api.js to musicbrainz.js for better separation. Also consider just having an interval checking if anything's in the queue and processing if there is, to not have to explicitly check after several actions.

Since this project is a load of spaghetti as it is (and barely maintained), the less new code the better. Try to minimize the number of null-/type-checks to what's required to not crash and assume valid data otherwise (lol) i.e. check before passing args i guess? in the same vein, the error logging in index.html can be removed

Will review properly later!