On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:53:47 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 
>> Cool, are you doing other types of media as well, or so far just music?
> 
> Every possible file. It searches for all files in configured basedirs
> and you can define the player-software (and if the file is playable at
> all) by filetype. I'm throwing video files straightly to full-screen X
> with "export DISPLAY=localhost:0;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=3,0
> -vo x11 -fs -zoom". Apache is running on the same user that has the
> right to play the files, just to make things easier (the machine is
> dedicated, after all).
> 
> And yeah, it normally plays randomly the radio-playable marked tracks
> and you can browse and search them - you'll need to log in to see the
> files you have permissions to (ables ie. you to give your kids
> permission to play cartoons, but not porn).

Very cool.  In some respects, kinda like Netjuke, but with more media 
types supported (including video, which I don't think Netjuke does at 
all) but also with a lot more flexibility.

When are you thinking of making the code available?

Jim

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