Direct Play Option

[cosmo]

Hi there,

I would really love to have a feature that lets you choose any music file in Windows explorer, even the ones that are not in a server scanned folder, and being able to play it on the Soundbridge just with a doubleclick or using the open with menu. So instead of opening the file for instance with WinAmp, this would require a small client program to send the file path to the Firefly server, which would then open the file and stream it directly to the Soundbridge without adding it to the library or song queue.

This would make it possible to easily find and listen to all the hidden files with missing ID tags or the ones you have just downloaded and want to check out before moving it to your library folder.

It is possible to do that using the SlimServer where you can send directly URLs or a filepath to the server for playback. Can something like that also be implemented with Firefly?

Cosmo

[rpedde]

@cosmo wrote:

It is possible to do that using the SlimServer where you can send directly URLs or a filepath to the server for playback. Can something like that also be implemented with Firefly?

Thats something that’s easy to do with slim because the server itself controls what the client plays. It’s harder with daap, because it’s a client-controlled protocol, not a server controlled protocol.

That said, I know there is interest in being able to control playback on the soundbridge from the server side. I know Roku is aware of that interest, and hopefully thats something they will want to tackle, as a fair bit of that would have to be done on their side as well.

Perhaps something like that will become possible if they decided to pursue synchronized audio.

Dunno, but it’s definitely something that’s fairly far down the feature path, just because of the work that would have to be done to build the infrastructure necessary to support such a feature.

Short answer: no time soon, I’m afraid.

— Ron

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