add documentation about audio upload and item visibility

[stragu]

I'm submitting a ...

• bug report
• feature request

What is the current behaviour?

Could not find information on what determines if LBRY audio is visible or not in Jelly-beats. (And how to upload it so it is available in Jelly-beats.)

What is the expected behaviour?

Provide some documentation on:

• how the catalogue is currently populated
• why not all audio on LBRY is on Jelly-beats
• how to upload audio so it is available on Jelly-beats

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

My personal questions about the project...? :)

Please tell us about your environment:

• Windows
• MacOS
• Linux

[btzr-io]

How the catalogue is currently populated?

• Current filters: non-audio files, anonymous content.

• In order to get the latest content the app uses the chainquery api.

• The current feature section is just a static-json api, this is only for demo / showcase, while I develop the actual api. 🙃

• Currently there is no way to find or populated an specific file, but there is a search feature already implemented so you can try to search for it using the right terms such as accurate name or title etc..

Why not all audio on LBRY is on Jelly-beats?

Currently the app blocks anonymous published content, this doesn't really prevent piracy but at least encourage artists (publisher) to create an identity (channel) so all their content can be more organized and easy to find. In the future there maybe a possibility to "verify" channels for trusted content.

[btzr-io]

How to upload audio so it is available on Jelly-beats?

Currently there is no way to upload content directly on the app, however doesn't matter where or how you publish the content as long as is uploaded to lbry network it will be accessible on the app.

You can try to publish on other platforms such as spee.ch, soundbytez.io or the lbry desktop app, and you should see the file under the latest section on the app once is published. ( Just remember to pass the current filters )

See: https://lbry.io/faq/how-to-publish

[btzr-io]

Publisher page #27

[btzr-io]

@stragu Let me know if you have more questions, I really need to write some documentation soon 😛

[btzr-io]

This is an alpha version of the project so there are some important features missing such as publish content and playlists.

[stragu]

Excellent, thank you for the explanations !!
It makes more sense now that I know the podcasts and the featured part are static.
Also, I noticed that the search for my artist name ("gentil"), lists two tracks from a few months ago, but not the three tracks uploaded to LBRY in the last month.
Interestingly, it's the same issue in the official LBRY client: search results only list the two older ones, but going straight to my chanel lists all 5 tracks. Interesting... Might report that to LBRY themselves!

Side note: I find this project very exciting, and I'm very keen to get involved – time permitting. What kind of help are you looking for?

[btzr-io]

@stragu Hi, any kind of help is welcome, there are some issues open if you want to check them out, most of them are dev-code stuff or if you prefer to help with the documentation check:
https://github.com/btzr-io/jelly-beats/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Adocs

Thanks for your interest and support to the project ✌️

[btzr-io]

Also, I noticed that the search for my artist name ("gentil"), lists two tracks from a few months ago, but not the three tracks uploaded to LBRY in the last month.
Interestingly, it's the same issue in the official LBRY client: search results only list the two older ones, but going straight to my chanel lists all 5 tracks. Interesting... Might report that to LBRY themselves!

I wasn't aware of this, yes you should report that 👍