Another frontend, need opinions (beta release)

[brett]

Brett,
While you're trolling this forum, let me first say thanks. I'll be sure and donate once I get everything up and working. A truly beautiful interface, well crafted.
I was wondering if you had any notes on the di.fm plugin you added in? I'd like to add a few similar stations from sky.fm with a similar interface to di.

/sm

Thank you for the complement, as far as the DI.fm streams go it's just a RegExp that parses the Di.fm homepage for stream urls, and then puts them into a readable format. I've never looked at sky.fm so I'm not sure what it would entail to add a scraper for it. However, I do plan to make an addition that would allow the user to add custom urls to the stream bar up top. I have the following week off work so I should definitely get some time in on this project again!

[gridaz]

Hi,

I struggled a bit to have it working (specially with the permissions which need to be set to 777) but now that I can access the interface the music won't play.

I can listen to the Radio something but not my music even if it launches in the player (I can add tracks/albums/artists to the playlist but nothing more)

Would you be kind enough to help me, I happen to like the GUI but if I can't use it it will end in the trash for me ...


Cheers


PS: I tried to switch the JWPlayer to the last one available on longtail's website but it didn't change anything. Please help I really hate not being able to make something work

[indecline]

is this works for the latest version 4.3 ? thanks

[sirphobos]

The only thing that is not working for me, is I cannot add users from the Admin part. Get this error:

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '{' or '$' in C:\wamp\www\admin.php on line 10

[sirphobos]

Ka bump. Anyone?

[donpearson]

Is this a dead project?

[toxic]

Download link is dead : http://www.valleynerds.com/brett/

Please, even if you abandoned the project, release the sources again (github is there for you, PM me if needed, I can also provide opensource code hosting if you realy hate github)

Please please, realy post this, since I was going to get my hands dirty coding something similar (php+sql frontend for subsonic to get rid of the "folder" thing and have a nice HTML5 flashless frontend, with a Artist/Albums DB, completely hiding the mess in my music folder !)

So this might be a nice base for my further developments !

[oeh]

Download link is dead : http://www.valleynerds.com/brett/

Please, even if you abandoned the project, release the sources again (github is there for you, PM me if needed, I can also provide opensource code hosting if you realy hate github)

Please please, realy post this, since I was going to get my hands dirty coding something similar (php+sql frontend for subsonic to get rid of the "folder" thing and have a nice HTML5 flashless frontend, with a Artist/Albums DB, completely hiding the mess in my music folder !)

So this might be a nice base for my further developments !

It's here:

http://code.google.com/p/subsonicbox/

[rvandaalen]

Is Brett or someone with programming skills going to continue this project? I would happily donate for this project.

[burjast]

how much will you donate??

[rvandaalen]

I will follow the same suggestions Subsonic asks for donation. I think if the project gets some good continued updates, a nice new frontend like this is easy worth €20

[brett]

Hi there, I'm not really sure how to begin; so I'll start with an apology. I originally wrote this php script as a means to have friends at a lan party queue/request songs to be played over the loud speakers. It eventually evolved into a mostly-working(at least on windows) front-end GUI replacement for Subsonic. Originally I had oodles of spare time when I first started developing it, now that time has been decreased exponentially. I've also been all over the place pretty much coding in new additions whenever I saw something cool that I liked (jquerymobile and streaming through cellular phones, or expanding on the jukebox mode I mentioned earlier).

Going forward, I wanted to switch to Ext.js. The comparison of UI components in Ext compared to Jquery is black and white. Ext has built-in functionality for things I have a hard time getting consistent in all browsers(mainly a 100% w/h viewport with dynamic scaling, tree hierarchies to name a few). I've also been fiddling with the idea of storing the list of music in an sql database completely separate from subsonic. Also on the list was the possibility of switching flash/html5 players(sound manager 2 comes to mind, I'm pretty sure Subtunes uses this, along with Ext.js as well)

I think at this point I've got too many ideas in my head and can't focus on a single objective. I'm in the process of learning the ins and outs of Ext.js and eventually plan to re-release this.

Cheers

[brett]

Here's a screen of my progress with Extjs, planning on having an accordion that separates the middle area. Sort of like a toggle between file browsing and the playlist.

[-Ender]

Nice, that looks really clean.

[mvo]

What's the chart under "Now Playing"?