Remote directory scanning and stuff

In article <blmieu$doaob$1@ID-139074.news.uni-berlin.de>, William Tasso
says...

 > web server on your pc configured to serve up from your MP3 directory. punch
 > a hole in your firewall for port 80 and point it at that web server. now
 > your remote web server can talk to your local web server.
 >
 > the rest should be fairly trivial.

Cheers! I've got the server set up, looking at port 80 on my IP lists my
MP3 directory well enough, but clicking on the files either saves them
or plays then on the client's side.

What I want is to select an MP3 file from a remote PC, and have it
played on my PC, the server. Any ideas?

 > I have refrained from asking why ;o)

Because I wanna

Just an idea that came to me. Can people visiting my site pick what
music I listen to? Sure, it'll probably drive me insane, but it'll be a
laugh.

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Daniel Ruscoe wrote:
 > ...
 > Just an idea that came to me. Can people visiting my site pick what
 > music I listen to? Sure, it'll probably drive me insane, but it'll be
 > a laugh.

bhf: to drive it directly would mean opening up your (local) server too
much I fear. Can your music player get it's playlist from a batch file or
somesuch? you could let a script manage a trivial data set ok. you may
possibly need a process running that picks up the input and then fires the
media player - don't know of such a thing though.

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In article <blmsb6$e5lee$1@ID-139074.news.uni-berlin.de>, William Tasso
says...
 > Daniel Ruscoe wrote:
  > > ...
  > > Just an idea that came to me. Can people visiting my site pick what
  > > music I listen to? Sure, it'll probably drive me insane, but it'll be
  > > a laugh.
 >
 > bhf: to drive it directly would mean opening up your (local) server too
 > much I fear. Can your music player get it's playlist from a batch file or
 > somesuch? you could let a script manage a trivial data set ok. you may
 > possibly need a process running that picks up the input and then fires the
 > media player - don't know of such a thing though.

A Winamp playlist looks like this inside:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8' standalone="yes"?>
<WinampXML>
<!-- Generated by: Nullsoft Winamp3 version 3.0c -->
<playlist num_entries="1" label="Playlist 001">
<entry Playstring="file:D:\Mp3\Evanessence - Bring Me To Life.mp3">
<Name>Evanessence - Bring Me To Life</Name>
<Length>239419</Length>
</entry>
</playlist>
</WinampXML>

I could write a script to create a one track playlist, like that, then
save it to my local server.

Getting Winamp to open the playlist, call it webtracks.b4s, after each
song would be the tricky part. Can't see it being impossible though.

Off to do some reading

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In article <MPG.19e90a1c9d3cc92f9896e2.DeleteThis@news.btopenworld.com>, Daniel
Ruscoe says...
 > In article <blmsb6$e5lee$1@ID-139074.news.uni-berlin.de>, William Tasso
 > says...
  > > Daniel Ruscoe wrote:
   > > > ...
   > > > Just an idea that came to me. Can people visiting my site pick what
   > > > music I listen to? Sure, it'll probably drive me insane, but it'll be
   > > > a laugh.

There's always someone who thought of it first:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.flippet.org/wawi/about.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.flippet.org/wawi/about.shtml</a>

Does remote playlist editing, start/stop and volume controls.

Works great using localhost:8080. I can't get it to work from my IP yet,
but I'll sort that.

Thanks for the help, William.

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"Daniel Ruscoe" <contact.TakeThisOut@website.plz> wrote in message
news:MPG.19e8d780dfe9f979896e0@news.btopenworld.com...
 > I've got nothing better to do, so I'm gonna attempt this.
 >
 > I want to be able to scan a directory on my PC from my website, say
 > C:\MP3s, then have the name of each file listed dynamically on a
 > webpage.
 >
 > Then, if I click on a file name, I want the info to be sent to a media
 > player on my PC (preferably Winamp) and have the actual MP3 played
 > through my speakers.
 >
 > I have a static IP with my DSL.
 >
 > So, just a couple of quick ones:
 > 1) Is this even possible?
 > 2) How do I get started?
 >
 > Thanks guys
 >
 > - Dan

Have a look @ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oneweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.oneweb.co.uk/</a> - this runs on IIS and does what you
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In article <bln4n5$b61$1@hercules.btinternet.com>, Peter says...

 > Have a look @ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oneweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.oneweb.co.uk/</a> - this runs on IIS and does what you
 > want (i think)

Almost, but it plays client side

I've sorted it now, thanks to a top notch Winamp plugin. If anybody
would like to give it a test run, and control what I listen to for a
while, have a look here:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://172.16.1.33:8080/" target="_blank">http://172.16.1.33:8080/</a> Just click on Music Collection or Playlist.

I'll be altering the look for my website, so it won't look that rubbish
soon.

- Dan

P.S. I own the CDs from which those MP3s came, and they can't be
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Daniel Ruscoe wrote:

 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://172.16.1.33:8080/" target="_blank">http://172.16.1.33:8080/</a> Just click on Music Collection or Playlist.

Have you remembered to open up a hole in your firewall for it? It doesn't
seem to want to let me in...

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In article <pan.2003.10.04.19.36.43.291040.TakeThisOut@dylanparry.com>, Dylan Parry
says...
 > Daniel Ruscoe wrote:
 >
  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://172.16.1.33:8080/" target="_blank">http://172.16.1.33:8080/</a> Just click on Music Collection or Playlist.
 >
 > Have you remembered to open up a hole in your firewall for it? It doesn't
 > seem to want to let me in...

That'll teach me to test it on a PC on the same network...

I just had a mate on IM tell me the same thing.

I'm on a small LAN connected to a hub with an ADSL modem. The IP for my
PC seems to be 172.16.1.33, but the IP I'm told I have by any website
that offers the service is 81.152.148.157.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://81.152.148.157:8080/" target="_blank">http://81.152.148.157:8080/</a> doesn't work, of course. That isn't my PC.

Any ideas on how to get around that one?

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Daniel Ruscoe wrote:

 > I'm on a small LAN connected to a hub with an ADSL modem. The IP for my
 > PC seems to be 172.16.1.33, but the IP I'm told I have by any website
 > that offers the service is 81.152.148.157.
 >
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://81.152.148.157:8080/" target="_blank">http://81.152.148.157:8080/</a> doesn't work, of course. That isn't my PC.

You need your router to point :8080 to the same port on your machine. Look
at the Virtual Port settings for your modem.

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"Daniel Ruscoe" <contact.DeleteThis@website.plz>
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 > I've got nothing better to do
 >
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