[mythtv] MythMusic Web Interface

[Ben Dodson]

:) Glad to hear you're interested-- to clarify quickly, I am not 'the' 
author of jinzora-- the lead developer is Ross Carlson. I used to work 
on a jukebox called Gina, which was just a hacked up Zina. Ross found me 
and asked if I'd like to work with him, so here I am.

So far, my main contribution has been rewriting the backend. We haven't 
implemented it yet, but once we do a lot of things will be MUCH 
faster-namely searching and random playlist generation. This new backend 
allows for different systems to be used-- currently we have one that 
uses a cache-based system and one that uses a database. To use mythTV, 
all we have to do is write a backend adaptor that uses the existing 
MythTV data. From there, we just have to get Jinzora to play music 
through mythtv as a jukebox.

It's hard to say how long all this will take, but I wanted to see how 
much interest there is with mythmusic users for something like that.

--Ben

IvanK. wrote:

 >Wow!  Fancy that, the author of my favorite web jukebox, jinzora, is a 
fellow
 >myth user!  And on top of that he's planning on integrating myth with
 >jinzora.  What can I say?  Best news lately.
 >
 >Thanks,
 >IvanK.
 >
 >On Saturday 11 September 2004 07:09 pm, Ben Dodson wrote:
 >
 >>Hi,
 >>
 >>I already talked to a few people working on myth TV about this. I read a
 >>post a while back about using a project like Zina as a web frontend to
 >>MythMusic. I am working on a project called Jinzora (www.jinzora.org)
 >>that I think could integrate really well with MythMusic.
 >>
 >>We are going to be releasing our 1.1 pretty soon which is mostly feature
 >>based, but there has already been a lot of work on 2.0 which will make
 >>it easy to integrate with MythMusic:
 >>--The backend has been abstracted so it should be able to use
 >>MythMusic's metadata easily.
 >>--There is a jukebox component that will allow it to control the
 >>MythMusic software (the user can choose to stream the music or play it
 >>via the host macine)
 >>--The interface will use Smarty tags so we can easily customize it to
 >>fit MythWeb's style.
 >>
 >>Anyways, any comments would be appreciated..
 >>
 >>--Ben
 >
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