I have a server with libapache2-mod-musicindex serving several hundreds of gigabytes. I also have a headless router at home with a soundcard. My desire was to figure out how to make the router stream music from that server before I went to sleep.
Just short of coming up with a quick’n’ugly hack, Decklin Foster
saved my day by pointing me to mpd. It runs as a daemon and accepts
network commands. It wasn’t until I found out that you can pipe the
playlists served by libapache2-mod-musicindex
to mpc add that I completely fell in love.
Now I hacked together a script, playstream,
which I can integrate with mailcap:
$ cat <<_eof >> ~/.mailcap
audio/mpegurl; ~/bin/playstream -q '%s'; nametemplate=%s.m3u
audio/x-mpegurl; ~/bin/playstream -q '%s'; nametemplate=%s.m3u
audio/x-scpls; ~/bin/playstream -q '%s'; nametemplate=%s.pls
The -q option queues the playlist up next. Other
options I’ve added are -a for append (the default),
and -r for replace.
I know I should have this in version control, but that’s all
under construction right now. I have asked the mpc
maintainer to include it.
Update: Firefox is once again really annoying.
I appreciate the fact that it tries to honour the
mailcap standard. However, if I say that the handler
if playstream -q %s, I really mean that, including the
-q; Firefox apparently just reads the first word and
appends the downloaded file. Argh.
