DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Hi,

i like your program I installed it on my DNS-323 as described and all my mp3-files are now listed in your webfront-end.

How do i use the streaming-feature? Opening the m3u /pls with VLC or WinAmp does not work on my laptop. I think it would be nice, if i can directly play the files on the website like it is done on a podcast site (example: http://www.bitsundso.de/ ).  Is this possible?

BR,

JackShepard

dkl wrote:

Would this work with Lighttpd? I tried it but I get a "blank" (empty) page.

Yes, it works with lighttpd (as long as PHP support is installed).  Your $rootPath in index.php or permissions might be wrong.  Try downloading version 0.2 from sourceforge, it now does a little more sanity checking and supports PHP 4.3 and up.  (Version 0.1 needed PHP 5.1 to run.)

JackShepard wrote:

How do i use the streaming-feature? Opening the m3u /pls with VLC or WinAmp does not work on my laptop. I think it would be nice, if i can directly play the files on the website like it is done on a podcast site (example: http://www.bitsundso.de/ ).  Is this possible

Streaming should work out of the box by selecting a file or the m3u/pls icon in the header.  Maybe your $rootUrl variable in index.php is wrong somehow?  It should point to the URL where the scripts are placed.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback guys.

Last edited by mingoto (2007-10-23 15:14:54)

@mingoto

Thank you very much! After changing the rootUrl path streaming my mp3 files is working perfect :-)

dkl wrote:

@mingoto: Maybe the README file could be updated so that the problems we both had (apparently) would be avoided. I did not download the last version, maybe you did this already.

In version 0.2 I added some info into index.php, next to the configuration variables.  In addition I some sanity checking with regards to the path.  Could you download it and see if that would have helped you?  All improvement  suggestions are welcome

JackShepard wrote:

Thank you very much! After changing the rootUrl path streaming my mp3 files is working perfect :-)

Great!  I guess I will add URL auto-detect in the next version, this would help avoid trouble for most people.

Looks cool. Keep us updated on new releases.

Version 0.4 has just been released. 

This version supports rudimentary playback via Slimserver, in case you (like me) feel that the Slimserver UI isn't snappy enough. Slimserver and server side playback can be limited to certain hosts.

Bug fixes:
- utf-8 display problems
- parsing problems when magic_quotes_sybase=On

Get it at http://musicbrowser.sf.net/

I have a question about music browser.

I have been messing around with a few things and i am trying to get .avi's and .wpl's to work with it. Now the easy part was obviously getting 'music browser' to become 'media browser'(displaying the .avi's as well), however i am struggling getting the streaming side happening.

Basically i have the .wpl side of things happening and it works fine with mp3, but whenever i try it with avi's, Media player simply sits there like a stunned mullet and it eventually has to be shut down. I'm not entirely sure what is causing it, any suggestions? Is it just that the files are likely too big to work the way the scipt is currently configured?

If so, is it possible, when creating the playlist, to have the file location listed as a network address rather than as a http:// address (through the script)?

Not explecting this as an inclusion in your music browser, just trying to edit it up to meet my own needs. (i am bumbling around a bit as i am not that good with code)


Also, For the future of your music browser - is there a chance we could see the ability to create a playlist of songs from multiple different directories? (i don't think you can do that at the moment can you?)

Hopefully that all makes sense

mingoto wrote:

I guess the problem is that the .avi file is read and output by StreamLib::readfile_chunked() instead of just being output by Apache directly.  This is OK for smaller files like MP3's, but a video players like to read large amounts of data to get seeking working etc.  I just released version 0.5, which enables .asx playlists -- it might work the same way as .wpl.   I manage to watch some seconds of an .avi with VLC, then it gives up.  WMP just seems to hang.  Please let me know if you find a good solution to this.

I am still working on this... probably not going to be possible though so may have to point at the file directly.

You mean like a playlist for e.g. both "Depeche Mode - Black Celebration" and "Depeche Mode - Violator"?  I haven't though of that earlier, but it might be doable by adding checkboxes next to the folders or something.  I'll think about it.

Yeah, kind of like creating a playlist... like  perhaps somehow open up a smaller window that saves your selections as you click the songs and adds them to a playlist. when you are finished selecting your songs, in the smaller window have a button that reads the songs that you have selected and creates the playlist.

Last edited by Gavlester (2007-11-12 11:58:52)

Thanks for the app, works on the DSMG600 too.

It would be a nice feature to be able to play the files directly in the browser, through for example flash player.

For my own device, I created a software that loops through my music collection, and creates static webpages for each directory. It is using this player:

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_MP3_Player

In that way I just click on the directory I want to listen to, and it is automatically played in my browser. It could be something for your music browser too.

I think that would be great too. I don't know anything of these kinf of things, so unfortunately I have to wait untill someone picks it up...

Hail to the developer. It was a breeze getting it to work, even for me, and that is very good, as I don't really have any experience with these kind of things. I installed php for the first time, and still don't know what it does and how it works, but your music player is working flawlessly on my site!!

Thanks!!

Patrick

p.s. is there some sort of mailing list we can be included on to be informed of any updates?

i just installed your app, and i can't believe how easy it was. i'm a total newbie to linux and hacking but people like you just makes it so much easier to get the most out of my otherwise vanilla (but reliable) nas. Thanks so much. I'll be exploring a bit more now that I get the server working without a hitch. It's fantabulous! (i only read two of your posts before going to download and install.. that's the incredible part)

boy doesn't the wiki on this site needs serious updating? you would never know all the features this nas is capable of reading the wiki, whose articles are often redundant and confusing. is it editable by everyone? why won't you post yours on there?

ciac wrote:

just an immediate question: is there any way to make the pages to display unicode by default? I have a lot of foreign/asian music files and I needed to manually switching the encoding to unicode everytime since it doesn't display right. Or is it unrelated to the application? Thanks.

You can try editing template.inc:  replace "iso-8859-1" with "utf-8" in line 23. 

Please tell me if it works for you.