In a discussion about web UI improvements, the idea of being able to
browse other LMS' music libraries came up. As I thought this didn't have
much to do with the web UI anyway I gave it a try.
One use case: your friend comes over to your home with a USB stick full
of music you'd like to listen to. But your server is in your basement.
Plug the stick in to your Touch and browse it without the need to switch
your player to the Touch's embedded server. Mix tracks from that USB
stick with tracks stored on your server etc.
In the latest 7.9 builds you'll find a new "Remote Libraries" menu item.
This would list other LMS installations found in your network. And from
there you'd have access to the usual music library browse modes
(artists, albums, playlists etc.).
A few important notes:
- Not all browse modes can be proxied. Eg. plugins like RandomPlay or
Erland's custom browse etc. require code to be running on the
controlling server. Therefore they can't be used when browsing remotely.
- The menu you'll see therefore is more or less the one configured on
the LMS your player is connected to. It will NOT show custom menu
entries from your remote LMS (see above).
- Not all links will be available. Eg. you can't browse the artist of
the currently playing track. Yet.
- You can only browse the remote server's music library. There is NO
access to music services configured on that computer.
- There will be bugs. Please let me know about them.
If you don't like all of this, just disable the "Remote Library" plugin.
Have fun!
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Michael
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