I have finished a preliminary (read: Alpha-quality) plugin that allows direct playback of albums, tracks and artists via entering their database ID number on the player with a remote.
I think this will be most useful for people with large and mostly unchanging music collections. I often find myself wanting to listen to a particular symphony by a particular orchesta and composer but it can take a while to find it with the web or player UI. With a hard-copy index of your music collection you should be able to play things by ID number very quickly. SlimServer version 6.2 or later is required. Basic play and add functionality of albums, tracks and artists work now without crashing your slimserver. I won't guarantee much more than that. :) This plugin is not very useful without knowing the ID numbers, so I have also written a small perl script to parse your current database and print all the relevant bits. This script requires the sqlite3 command-line utility. Get the plugin here: http://ultratrendy.com:31888/slim/plugins/DirectPlay/DirectPlay-0.1.pm Get the helper script here: http://ultratrendy.com:31888/slim/scripts/DirectPlayBook.pl There are still some rough edges to clean up and additional features I want to add to the plugin and helper script. If you have any ideas or find any bugs let me know. -- jth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jth's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18418 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
