Re: Thoughts about music library

On Mon, August 6, 2007 4:13 pm, Børge Holen wrote: > I'm building an web interface for my music collection. > > What I would like is some opinions on what to choose pro/cons: > > The first choice I took was to stream music directly to a player, i.e. > I > construct and export an m3u with php and open that with any player. > This gives me an external playlist independent of browser screen. > > The loosing choice was to use icecast to stream. Here I can construct > an > online playlist witch shows whats up next, what was the last song, and > skip > back/forth... so on. > This would mainly be for programmin excersice, any takers on pros? > > The next thing would be the playlists, I would like an option to save > them for > further use. > My playlist so far is either that I enter a directory and press play. > This > would put all the files in this directory (not recursive) into a > playlist and > export, or I press one single file and a m3u gets exported. > > I can easily save this file as the... well... last playlists sorted > after date > or whatever, but how would I go on if I wanted to add songs. > Here I was thinking about making a button behind each song or > directory and > have a js sort of table to one end of the screen witch add,update or > gives me > the choice to delete a song/album... > This seems like a screenfilling option of sorts, anyone else with a > less > extensive, prettier or just a better solution? There's are several rather nice PHP/MySQL music library software packages "out there" Take a look at how they do things. I've forgotten the names of them all except "DDJ" which I liked fairly well, but Google knows them all. :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?