[mythtv] [PATCH] Mythweb: Music

[Steven Cruysberghs]

Op wo 07-07-2004, om 21:12 schreef Jason Donahue:
> Hello,
> First off, let me apologize for the size of this patch. I started out with
> a few changes...and it quickly grew. I hope this doesn't rub anyone wrong,
> or keep it from getting accepted. - I had to gzip the patch because it was
> just over the 40k size limit for the mailing list.
> 
> With that out of the way, let me explain what my patch does.
> 
> 1. Adds the ability to search through your music collection. This includes
> an advanced search link to filter what you want to search (Artist, Title,
> or Album)
> 
> 2. Adds the ability to Browse the collection by Artist, Album, Title, or
> Genre. Browsing is context aware: browsing Artists gives you total
> songs/albums by each artist, browsing albums gives you total
> tracks/playing time for each album.
> 
> 3. Adds configurable "Download" link to each song. Config allows you to
> enable/disable this, as well as specify download url (incase the files are
> on a different physical server)
> 
> 4. Adds a special "Album" view when selecting an album. This view gives
> total playing time, adds a stream link (configurable), and allows for
> displaying of album covers, including support for scripts that
> auto-downloading the covers. IThis has been tested with a script mention
> in the new config.
> 
> 5. Adds "playlist" view, similar to "Album" view which displays the
> playlist contents, total playing time, and a (configurable) stream link.
> 
> 6. The "stream" link is done by generating "on-the-fly" an m3u file, and
> pushing it out. The m3u then fetches the mp3s via http. MY cable provider
> throttles my upload speed, and even throttled, I have plenty of bandwidth
> to sustain multiple streams.
> 
> I also plan on adding more playlist functionality, i.e. create playlists,
> and edit them. but I decided not to keep going as the code is already
> quite extensive.
> 
> Anyone interested in "beta" testing my code can see it here:
> 
> http://home.timekiller.org:91/mymythweb/mythmusic.php
> 
> For obvious reasons, I have disabled the stream, and download links, as
> well as anything not related to mythmusic.
> 
> Your (constructive) criticism is welcome.
> 
Nice work 
(only looked at your site, haven't tried the patch yet)

One little remark. My bandwith (and with me a lot of ADSL users) is
limited to 128mbit wich means 128 kb (or higher) mp3's streams won't
play. It would be nice to have a setting to recompress music on the fly
to a lower bitrate. zina (another php web jukebox that I'm using for the
moment, www.pancake.org/zina.html but the site seems down at the moment)
does this using lame. They also use m3u files so I guess this shouldn't
be to hard to add. I'll look into it myself if anyone else is
interested.

Steven