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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: gentleolas on January 26, 2006, 01:06:37 pm

Title: Feature Request: Streamsicle-Type Interface
Post by: gentleolas on January 26, 2006, 01:06:37 pm

I love Media Center.

I would like a web-based interface to my media library and playing now.

This would be very similar to the interface in Streamsicle, but without the streaming part.  Would be better to use Media-Center for d/encoding then SimpleCast/IceCast for streaming the raw audio device info. 

That way I can have friends from all over the world play DJ together via the web my Media-Center managed library!!!

Ideas?

I'm implementing similar though cludges and hacks now.

Feedback welcome,
Nicholas

Title: Re: Feature Request: Streamsicle-Type Interface
Post by: gentleolas on January 26, 2006, 02:15:56 pm

Ahh, I found many answers digging into threads here. 

Of course the web server built-in to MC11 is available, but is very rudimentary and unsatisfactory for my purposes.

And then NetRemote which seems OK, but too speciifc for single-user / PDA usage.

Finally there is of course the MC API, so I can build my own Streamsicle-type interface for multi-user queuing.  This seems the only answer so far....  And with streamsicle being Java and open source, I probably could pull it together as a J# and use the COM API, stripping out the streaming part...., or similar.  Anyhow--hope someone has done the hard work and is just sitting on a perfect solution.

;-)

Title: Re: Feature Request: Streamsicle-Type Interface
Post by: Mr ChriZ on January 26, 2006, 02:28:09 pm

Have you seen this?
It's still underdevelopment but looks good...
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=31356.msg215530#msg215530

Title: Re: Feature Request: Streamsicle-Type Interface
Post by: gentleolas on January 30, 2006, 04:26:57 pm

Yea, definitly interesting... as was the OpenLazlo platform linked on that thread.  Still doesn't quite make the cut.

For multi-user DJ fun I think the basic requirements:
Multiple DJs manipulate a single "station"/queue of a server running a media center instance playing from a audio library as normal (NOT using media center server.) An important optional feature would be that the DJ can upload to a special "watched" folder from which media center automatically imports. 

From there the server system would encode then stream sound device audio output as per your normal process.  I use Opticodec for 32k AAC+ and Icecast, a personal preference.

Seems simple enough requirements-wise, but how to best implement?