> Firstly, is there an archive of this list? If so - please ignore the
> following questions until I've searched the archive!!
There is not much of one -- there hasn't been much traffic yet:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
> I've just installed obs and it working rather well on a P133 but I have
> a few questions:-
Glad to hear it!
> 1. In between tracks I get a 3-4 second airing of the deadair track;
Interesting -- did you download the 0.2.1 or are you using the code from
CVS?
> 2. The browser interface is offering the facility to rename/delete
> tracks - Can I switch this off/limit it?;
Yes. In the file ObsDefs.pm (which got installed into the cgi-bin/obs path
on your machine) there is a OBS_ADMIN constant -- set it to 0 and the
editing features will turn off. If you are using mod_perl, make sure to hup
the server before reloading the pages.
This also answers my first question, I guess. In the obs.conf file, make
sure that PlayCacheSize is set to at least 2. 1 doesn't work right yet -- I
need to fix that before the next release.
> 3. Should the "next track" button in freeamp skip to the next track? If
> so, what are the possible reasons for this not working?;
No -- that moves to the next freeamp track. That type of feature is
something that I would like see implemented in FreeAmp soon.
> 4. Although I have a DNS entry which resolves to the multicast address,
> freeamp will only work with the ip address;
That's correct -- Obs does not try to use DNS to resolve a name to get an
IP. Generally multicast addresses are treated differently than regular
IPs -- for instance you cannot ping a multicast address, since there is no
real machine associated with multicast. Its more like a 'channel' than it is
a machine.
> Sorry for the no doubt silly questions - and thanks for any feedback,
>
> Bar these niggles it's working rather well!,
If you feel like helping out to improve things, please do. I would love to
have people helping out with the project. At the moment all my time is spent
working on FreeAmp, but I hope that I can convince Brett (my boss at Emusic)
to give me a couple of weeks to play around with Obs after the FreeAmp 1.5
release in November.
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
