SMD, let's discover the music

[Social Music Discovery Announcements]

We have now been working for a while on a completely new project to
enhance the music discovery functionality of the Squeezebox. The
project is not ready for a public end user release yet but we feel
that we have accomplished enough to try to make people interested in
the project and make it possible for them to follow the status.

The Social Music Discovery (SMD) project was initiated in August 2010
and during the project so far there have been about 10-15 different
Squeezebox community members involved. Some have contributed with
ideas, others with documentation/modelling and a few core members have
been heavily involved in writing the source code. Without all these
contributors this project would never have happened.

There is a more detailed project description which can be found at the
following link on our project site, so I'll just link to it instead of
repeating everything here: http://code.google.com/p/socialmusicdiscovery/wiki/AboutSMD

The current state of the project is that we want more core
contributors, primarily people who are interested in contributing as
developers and user interface design, but we are also interested in
people who like to help defining more detailed requirements and
functionality.

The state of the project is that we have taken a small first step
towards our main goal, but there is a lot of work left. We do have an
executable version of SMD which can be installed already now by adding
the following plugin repository in the "Plugins" tab of Squeezebox
Server Settings and check the "Social Music Discovery" plugin.
http://socialmusicdiscovery.googlecode.com/svn/repository/alpha.xml

You will need to have Java 6 or later installed on the computer to
make it work.

For further details regarding installation and configuration see:
http://code.google.com/p/socialmusicdiscovery/wiki/SoftwareInstallation

If you have questions, feel free to reply to the following forum
thread in the Squeezebox community forum:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713

If you just want to subscribe on the project status, we have a read
only mailing list which we will be using for announcements:
http://groups.google.com/group/socialmusicdiscovery-announcements