Web-based DAAP client

[w1ll14m]

@rpedde wrote:

@larrypevin wrote:

Is there any way I can use this applet from a network machine without setting or using a remote admin password? I am sure it would be possible to modify the server to allow anonymous access to applet.html, but I am not a programmer so I wouldn’t know how to do this myself.

Not right now without code changes. I intend that there be a user accessible way to browse, play, and download remote music on a server, but I’m not there yet.

You can use a rewrite rule to do this:)
just download DAAPApplet-0-1.jar and applet.html

use this piece of code for your apache2 config

Servername daap.schoorl.nu

ServerAdmin [email protected]

DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/daap

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/login(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/login [P]

RewriteRule ^/logout(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/logout$1 [P]

RewriteRule ^/databases(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/databases$1 [P]

RewriteRule ^/server-info(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/server-info$1 [P]

RewriteRule ^/update(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/update$1 [P]

RewriteRule ^/1/(.*)$ http://192.168.0.5:8080/1/$1 [P]





AuthType Basic

AuthName "WebMusic Player"

AuthUserFile /usr/local/www/daap.htpasswd

Require valid-user

[EVILRipper]

Heya,

Using a java applet is one way to stream music.
I got fed up with iTunes so I did things differently;
I found some DAAP documentation and kind of wrote my own DAAP client.
He does a HTTP request and reads all songs.
The program then writes it all to a .m3u playlist file.
This m3u playlst file can be opened by Winamp which results in a Remote Playlist with streams.

Piece of cake and hella handy. Isnt this a better way than completely integrating the musicplayer in a java applet?

~EVILRipper

[blamm]

Hi.

Any chance you can share this client with us?

[blamm]

@rpedde wrote:

@w1ll14m wrote:

All the music can be streamed as http://server/rsp/stream/, if you know the song id (which is in the database).

Is seems this only works with MP3s. I tried a couple of FLACs and my player complained about it being an unsupported format (foobar can play FLAC)

[rpedde]

@blamm wrote:

@rpedde wrote:

@w1ll14m wrote:

All the music can be streamed as http://server/rsp/stream/, if you know the song id (which is in the database).

Is seems this only works with MP3s. I tried a couple of FLACs and my player complained about it being an unsupported format (foobar can play FLAC)

It’s not broken on the daap server side. You can try playing with “never_transcode” and see if you can force it to flac or wav, and see if foobar has better luck with it.

[kellyharding]

@blamm wrote:

Hi.

Is this DAAP client still available? I am becoming increasingly fedup with iTunes..

Seems to be removed from the nightlies?

I agree it’d be a great thing. iTunes is a big of a resource hog in many respects at times.

A command-line client ala mpc for mpd would also be great.

[mas]

http://IPofServer/applet.html

should still work?

[kellyharding]

@mas wrote:

http://IPofServer/applet.html

should still work?

Yes it does.

Kelly

[blamm]

@rpedde wrote:

@blamm wrote:

@rpedde wrote:

@w1ll14m wrote:

All the music can be streamed as http://server/rsp/stream/, if you know the song id (which is in the database).

Is seems this only works with MP3s. I tried a couple of FLACs and my player complained about it being an unsupported format (foobar can play FLAC)

It’s not broken on the daap server side. You can try playing with “never_transcode” and see if you can force it to flac or wav, and see if foobar has better luck with it.

Wow. I just added FLAC and OGG to “never_transcode” field and it worked. I even created a playlist listing every ID in the DB (using http:::/rsp/stream/) and the now I can play stuff from Firefly in Foobar. Only problem is that the track name isnt displayed until the track is played. Would be cool if I could somehow parse for names only.

[blamm]

I have also discovered that VLC will play FLACs from Firefly using the above method without the “never_transcode” trick. Is Firefly doing something odd with the FLACs?

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