kraggen;553594 Wrote: > > My first thought was to learn lua scripting, and create the whole > solution, but in short of time I need some help from somebody with lua > scriping experience with part three... > > If anyone is interested in this please let me know.. > If you make something that can take commands through a HTTP request, I can do the lua part. Preferably would it communicated using JSON since that's supported in both lua/SqueezePlay and perl, alternatively just XML over HTTP. A real standard web service using SOAP will make it more complicated on the lua/perl side as there isn't any SOAP client available in the bundled libraries.
Does this solution communicate with the Windows Spotify client or does it communicate using the official Spotify API ? Will VLC Stream Server result in that we can support multiple streams and thus several players ? The DSBridge solution we have today only works with a single player at the time. If it doesn't communicate with the Windows Spotify client, I'm guessing a premium account is required ? Shouldn't be a problem, I'm just asking to know if I need to get one. If it doesn't use DSBridge, does that mean that we loose the artwork support of currently playing track or will that be supported also through VLC Stream Server ? I think it should be possible to use the official meta data api directly from lua for searching/browsing, so you won't have to take care of that. But it would be good if it was possible to specify a Spotify reference as those returned from the metadata api when hitting play: http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ I don't think playlists are supported through metadata api, so that's probably something that needs to be provided by your web service. I've looked briefly at h3x.se (Servify/C#) which looks promising but I think the reason I didn't get it to work is that it require a premium account. I'm not 100% sure it will work with DSBridge which could be a problem. I've also looked at remoteless.no (Remoteless Helper) which looks even more promising if you like to communicate with the Windows Spotify client, the problem is just that it seems to use a binary protocol and I haven't been able to establish contacts with the developers yet. I also read that Spotify might be up to something themselves (read Morgan's comment here): http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/can_you_stream_to_a_squeezebox If you are serious about this, it might be a good idea to continue this discussion in the "Developers" section. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72390 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
