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List:       freeamp-dev
Subject:    Re: control freeamp through http
From:       Robert Hart <ab6rah () bath ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2000-12-19 14:15:52
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I have been thinking along similar lines for some time, and I'm sure a number of
people have made suggestions about how to do it on the list before. I recently
wrote a screensaver that displays the current track name and artist if freeamp
is running. It does this by peeking at the window title - it's a bit of a hack,
but it works, I would of course love to extend this concept further.

I would be wary therefore, of putting code into freeamp itself to generate HTML,
and to act as a web server. My suggestion would be to write a UI plugin, that
listens on a port, or named pipe or something (preferably something that can be
done both on UNIX and that other operating system) - in other words create
freeampd. 
Personally I was thinking of starting with the linux command line UI, and
modifying it. But then I'm all talk and not much action....

Then write a CGI script that acts as a go between, doing things like
handling multiple users, etc.

Also, write a standalone app, that can load standard freeamp .UI, and talk to
the freeampd (over a LAN perhaps - so everyone in a house/office/cafe etc. can
have an input on the choice of music). I think the modular structure of freeamp
should make this really easy to do.

On a perhaps slightly unrelated issue, it would be great to have a jukebox mode,
where when a track is played, it is removed from the currentplaylist, and if the
current playlist is empty, freeamp plays randomly from my music. 


On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Niklas Söderberg wrote:

->
->I'm currently working on a small hobby-project, in which I need to control
->an mp3-player using a browser. I know there are plug-ins for WinAmp to do
->that, but I want to use FreeAmp!:-)
->
->Has anybody already done this, or if not, can someone give me a pointer as
->to where to start, since I'm completely new to the FreeAmp source? I've
->started thinking in the terms of making a port-listener as an additional UI,
->which then passes the commands recieved on to the player (since it will in
->fact work as an extension of the user interface in the browser). Or is it
->perhaps better to do it as a plug-in? 
->
->I would be grateful for any help you can give me!
->
->Regards,
->Niklas
->

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