FirePlay Flash client for FireFly

[Bo Mellberg]

OK, try putting all three files inside your admin-root folder and replace the swf with this:

http://www.mellberg.org/FlashDAAP.swf (right-click and save)

Access your Flash client with:

http://www.yourserver.com:3689/FlashDAAP.html

It autofills the server field. I removed the port field.

/Bo

[blamm]

That works a treat. Thanks.

Regarding the layout. I suggest you try and use the same style as the “hidden” playlist page and put your control panel at the top.

http://www.yourserver.com:3689/playlist.html

I will try and mock something up for you.

[blamm]

Just tried it on my son’s Wii. Managed to display the Flash but it was flickering and wouldnt accept the Firefly URL. Would be extremely cool if we could get this working! Could be a Media centre on my TV! Maybe something to think about later.

[blamm]

Here is a mockup using the Firefly playlist page. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/toaster/mockup.png

And here is what it would look like embedded in Firefly. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/toaster/mockup2.png

[sansp00]

This is very iTunes like … which is good, users have a sense of ‘deja vu’ 🙂
I’ll try it at home as soon as a figure out how to update Firefly on my MediaVault.
Patrick S.

[mas]

These mock-ups look nice. Now we just have to make it come true. 😎

But with the new swf it indeed already works quite ok.

[Bo Mellberg]

@blamm wrote:

Hi.

I would also suggest.

– Adding playlists
– Add “add to playlist” on right click of album, artist or track.
– Remove the stop button (it does the same as ‘back’)
– Make the play button a play/pause toggle.
– Changing the layout to what is probably most common in players.

– Controls (including search) at the top or bottom left.
– Playlists down the side
– Navigation panes across the middle (album, artist, track)
– Now playing at the bottom

Everything above is valid and noted!

Regarding the “add to playlist” function, this would be of no use if it didnt actually update the playlists in the database, right? I have no idea of how to do that. Perhaps you could give me a walkthrough, Ron?

Also, I am quite convinced that the list order should be Artist->Album->Track. At least this is how you browse on the Soundbridge.

[Bo Mellberg]

@rpedde wrote:

@fizze wrote:

Holy moly thats an awesome feat! 😀 🙂
I wub it already. And even on the slug its blazingly fast!

Whats the black magic there? Nothing I’ve seen browsed firefly that fast!

Can you integrate it with the web interface? (port and address stuff as noted above). If so, I’d be happy to replace the java thing with it.

Have you (or will you) publish the source?

Not sure what you mean by integrate here, but the latest version is to be put inside the admin-pages folder, I hope thats good?

The source will be open as soon as I feel satisfied with my first version. I’d have to translate all the comments from Swedish to English (yes, I comment my code) 🙂

/Bo

[sonichouse]

This is a great start. works like a charm.

Would it be possible to only list files that the swf can play ?

[rpedde]

@Bo Mellberg wrote:

@blamm wrote:

Hi.

I would also suggest.

– Adding playlists
– Add “add to playlist” on right click of album, artist or track.
– Remove the stop button (it does the same as ‘back’)
– Make the play button a play/pause toggle.
– Changing the layout to what is probably most common in players.

– Controls (including search) at the top or bottom left.
– Playlists down the side
– Navigation panes across the middle (album, artist, track)
– Now playing at the bottom

Everything above is valid and noted!

Regarding the “add to playlist” function, this would be of no use if it didnt actually update the playlists in the database, right? I have no idea of how to do that. Perhaps you could give me a walkthrough, Ron?

Also, I am quite convinced that the list order should be Artist->Album->Track. At least this is how you browse on the Soundbridge.

If you email me at [email protected], I’ll email you the rpc calls for managing playlists, as well as searching and incremental browsing.

— Ron

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