RE: Perl/PHP/PostgreSQL interface

Jon,

I've put up a page that describes what I've been doing with mod_rewrite:

http://www.meredevice.com/mod_mp3_tricks.html

I hope people will find this useful.

Regards,
Andrew

Disnard, Jon said:
> Please post your methods for the mod_rewrite thingy.
>
> In regards to the playing of music on the httpd server itself via the
> soundcard. I do that!
> It requires a perl/php script to call system() either to AMP, or MPG123,
> or whatever command line mp3 decoder you like best. I have found that
> AMP operates better than MPG123 for this type of stuff. I also believe
> that there used to be a web-xmms php script, but that requires X be
> running on the httpd server (uncool).
>
> -Jon
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Liebeskind [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 09:29
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Mod_mp3] Perl/PHP/PostgreSQL interface
>
>
> Hi there.  I've got a somewhat similar arrangement set up, although
> without the bit about playing music directly on the server's soundcard.
>
> What I do is use Artekopia Netjuke ( http://netjuke.sourceforge.net ) to
> manage the collection and generate playlists.  When I went looking for
> something to manage my Ogg Vorbis (and some MP3) collection with, this
> was the best that I found, by far.
>
> I'm also using mod_mp3, but not with server playlists.  The reason I
> like it is that it will send a proper Shoutcast stream to Winamp/XMMS
> with title and artist info; if you just point Winamp to the URL of an
> MP3 file, it will show the filename, but none of the metadata.
>
> Here's the clever bit (or at least, I think so :-).  Netjuke only knows
> the path to the real MP3 file, so that's what it puts in the playlists
> that it generates.  I've got a couple of small shell scripts that
> generate a list of MP3 files and the MD5 hashes for their directory
> paths, which is how mod_mp3 references them.  I then use Apache's
> mod_rewrite to map each request from Winamp for an MP3 file into a
> properly-formatted request to mod_mp3, which is running on a virtual
> server.  (Since I like to listen to the music collection via my
> broadband connection while I'm away from home, and have a relatively
> slow uplink speed, I also use this technique to selectively redirect
> those MP3s whose bitrate is too high for the connection to a separate
> mod_mp3 virtual server which uses lame to re-encode them to a lower
> bitrate, per the example in the mod_mp3 FAQ.)
>
> This doesn't address your idea of manipulating the local playlist for
> the server, but otherwise I've found that this arrangement serves me
> well.  If there's interest, I'll put up a webpage detailing the scripts
> and Apache configuration I use to do this remapping.
>
> Andrew
>
>> Hello, all.  New subscriber here, discovered the list by Googling for
>> related topics.
>>
>> I'm working on a Linux (Red Hat 8) box that will, by the time I'm
>> through, have the music from all of my compact discs. Other computers
>> in the house will be able to play music from that server (which is
>> where mod_mp3 for Apache comes in).  Also, I've got a soundcard in the
>
>> server, so other  computers in the house can tell the server what
>> music to play on its own  soundcard.
>>
>> (So far this is standard stuff, see also Empeg car stereos for similar
>> capabilites.) I also want to do is to have a database of all of the
>> info about the music, for ease of automatic playlist generation. I
>> believe Brian Aker and Scott Kveton were discussing something like
>> this here a while back.
>>
>> Well, that's the basic outline of my plans.  I'm here to learn what's
>> already been built of a similar nature, so that I don't have to
>> reinvent the wheel, and so I can contribute my work to the common
>> good.
>>
>> Chaz
>>
>> --
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>> Orange County, California  * AOL IM: Hazel Chaz
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