Re: Using a custom storage system with the SliMP3?

Hi Jacob,

This is one reason I added the HTTP server to the SliMP3 server.

I have a similar legacy system in my house (tho' it uses a
different file organization.)

You can use your PHP script to access the SliMP3 server via HTTP
and queue up songs, control playback, etc...

If you call the server with a URL like:

http://localhost:9000/status.html

you get back an HTML page with the currently playing status on
it.

But for our applications, you can use a URL like:

http://localhost:9000/status.m3u

you get back an M3U file with the currently playlist in it.

If you send a command to the player like:

http://localhost:9000/playlist.m3u?p1=append&p2=%2fhome%2fjacob%2fmp3%2fA_Song.mp3

it will also return an M3U file (see the playlist.m3u command in
there?) and add the song /home/jacob/mp3/A_Song.mp3 to the
playlist.

The M3U responses also come back with a set of headers that
describe the player's current state. Here's an example of an
HTTP request/response using telnet:

[dean@monkeyhouse SliMP3]$ telnet localhost 9000

Trying 127.0.0.1...

Connected to monkeytank (127.0.0.1).

Escape character is '^]'.

GET /status.m3u http/1.1

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl

x-playerindex: 1

x-playervolume: 99

x-playertracks: 3

x-playershuffle: 0

x-playerrepeat: 2

x-playermode: play

http://10.0.1.201:8080/jukebox/music/Sade/Lovers%20Rock/01.%20By%20Your%20Side.mp3

http://10.0.1.201:8080/jukebox/music/Sade/Lovers%20Rock/02.%20Flow.mp3

http://10.0.1.201:8080/jukebox/music/Sade/Lovers%20Rock/03.%20King%20Of%20Sorrow.mp3

I haven't really documented (except in the code :-) the command
set, but by browsing the web interface you can cull out examples to
work from. (That's no excuse for missing
documentation...) I have some PHP code that issues the
commands to the player/server. Let me know if you'd like to see
them.

It seems to be pretty stable (my wife didn't even notice that I
replaced the old player with a SliMP3), but if you find a problem let
me know...

-dean

Hi all -

On my
system, I have a somewhat different MP3 storage system. Actual

MP3s are stored in the generic spaces-as-underscores format ("A
Song"

becomes "A_Song.mp3"), but directories are always stored as
'f.'

followed by something, usually a number. ('f.0', 'f.1', etc). The
actual

name of that directory is stored in a file named '.album' along with
the

mp3s or subdirectories. Also, the names of MP3s are stored in

'.indexfile', so that I can see the files in whatever order they were
on

the CD, not just alphabetically.

I have a console-based browser (which calls
mpg123) and PHP web-based

access for this, but how can I tie this in to my SliMP3? (Well, my

SliMP3 emulator, because I don't have a SliMP3). Both the browser
and

the PHP script call a back-end, written in C, that outputs
something

like this:

1 /home/jacob/mp3/A_Song.mp3 "A
Song"

2 /home/jacob/mp3/Another_Song.mp3 "Another Song"

3 f.0/ "A Folder"

(note
that the mp3 names are absolute, the folder names are relative.)

Here's an example tree:

-+ MP3s

|

+- .album

(contains
'Root')

+- .indexfile

(contains 'A_Song.mp3' on line 1, 'Another_Song.mp3'
on line 2)

+- A_Song.mp3

+- Another_Song.mp3

|

+-+ f.0

|

+- .album

(Contains 'A Folder')

+- .indexfile

(contains 'Song_In_Folder.mp3')

+- Song_In_Folder.mp3

To the user, that looks like:

-+ Root

|

+- A Song

+- Another Song

|

+-+ A Folder

|

+ Song In Folder

Any ideas on how I can tie all this into the
SliMP3 server? Thanks!

- Jacob

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