[mythtv-users] MythWeb::Music Rewrite - Submitted for your approval...

rick bradshaw rick at prototype8.com
Tue Feb 17 16:48:26 EST 2004


Steve,
        that is an interesting idea. I would also recommend a look at
streamripper. It does a nice proxy thing while recording also. Just a
little thought I wanted to add.

Rick

Steven Cruysberghs <steven.cruysberghs at pi.be> writes:

> Op di 17-02-2004, om 20:51 schreef Chris Petersen:
>> > Very cool. The one thing I personally use a lot is the genre part of the 
>> > id3 tag. I don't have nearly as many records as you do (only 2616 songs) 
>> > but I find that I like to listen to an entire genre rather than specific 
>> > albums.
>> 
>> I'd have to vote for genre, too...  And would suggest a more
>> itunes/rhythmbox interface if you're setting up playlists like that
>> (although at last check, php had issues with multi-select values and
>> wouldn't actually send the multiple values but would overwrite them)
>> 
>> Just curious - where do you grab the songs from?  Did you create a
>> passthrough link, or actually symlink the songs into the webdir?
>> 
>> But seriously, this is awesome.  Especially if we could get it
>> integrated with some kind of streaming server (how's the support for
>> this coming in the backend?)....
>
> Or you could do streaming by transcoding the music on the fly like zina
> (another php music player) does. http://www.pancake.org/zina.html. It
> also has custom and session playlists. Have a look at it so the wheel
> doesn't have to be re-invented again... :-)
> Just copy the files in a webfolder and create a symlink to your music
> folder and you are set.
>
> I remember the mfd developer once saying that streaming over the
> internet with mfd/daap protocol would never be implemented (read
> implemented as: save enough).
>
>
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