That was very helpful. I can now hear music! The regex so far has just been 
working so I haven't messed with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will look 
into better ways to manage the XML.

Thanks Leonel!

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:08:11 PM UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>
> Heres an example
>
> def stream():
>     """
>     Stream an mp3 from an absolute path given as var
>     WARNING: This is definitely unsafe as it doesn't care what that path 
> is at all.
>     WARNING: Seriously this is just an example, don't use it.
>     """
>     import os
>     if os.path.exists(request.vars.path):
>         response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'audio/mpeg3'
>         return response.stream(open(request.vars.path, 'rb'), 
> chunk_size=4096)
>     else:
>         raise HTTP(404)
>
>
> By the way, after looking at your code, I have to say, you really 
> shouldn't use regexes to parse XML, it's really not their purpose. It's 
> quite simple to refactor that using cElementTree or any other xml parser.
>
> Good luck with your project!
>
> Quarta-feira, 11 de Dezembro de 2013 0:11:46 UTC, Cliff escreveu:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am new to both python and web2py but have been playing with it a bit. I 
>> have made a simple program to listen to like artists from lastfm's API. I 
>> store my mp3s in a database: Artist/Track/File. It will go through my mp3s 
>> and find like songs and play them with jPlayer. I am stuck at playing the 
>> songs with jPlayer. It is trying to play my songs from 
>> /media/Music/artist/track.mp3 which is out of web2py's static dir. What 
>> would be the best way to allow web2py to access these files? If you had any 
>> examples that would be great.
>>
>> An example of the error: HTTP load failed with status 404. Load of media 
>> resource https://IP:8080/media/Music/mp3/Artist/Song.mp3 failed. 
>>  (removed IP and artist/song since they were not important)
>>
>> This will only be used by me and on my local server so I am not concerned 
>> with the security issues of accessing files outside of static.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cliff
>>
>

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