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Hello!@ I’m your friendly neighborhood IndexOf blog!
The purpose of this blog is to post urls that take the user to crappy old index-of pages automatically generated by webservers or webclients everywhere. Hopefully, ones that actually link to media.
Why?
Well, since we all (both in here and out there) seem to want to go on and on about Songbird based on naught but a couple of screenshots, I felt it was time for me to step up and show off some of our keen features that have no interesting graphics or visual design whatsoever. Long live Web94!
“What features?” you might ask?
Well, I dunno…
What _should_ your media player do with this url?
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/
You tell us, hmmm?
10 Comments
SubscribePretend its part of my media library.
Oh, so you’re talking dirty now? I want it to suuuuuuuck that list into my hot player
Automatically download the songs and add them to the music library.
I suggest just make a list of songs it found in the ftp directory, then allow users to choose which to download and play, and which to stay. Also add an option to “download them all” either automatically or manually.
That way it will give users choice what to do with the songs.
Also don’t forget, there are some ftp directory that can hold thousands of songs… do you want a media player to blindly download everything it find?
All URLs should have the following options:
1. “add as podcast”: have an option to add that page as a podcast. Scrape it, read the track metadata, and gen some XML, yo.
2. “add to library”: save all the tracks directly to local library
3. “add bookmark”: save as a bookmark, and be able to expand the bookmark in a tree-control-ish way to view the tracks. The behaviour should be similar to a livemark in Firefox.
4. “create playlist”: have a webjay-ish functionality for creating playlist from all tracks on the page. Would be nice to have local storage of playlist definitions as well as transparent support for remote playlist services (webjay, etc).
After the first three comments, I was worried people weren’t going to understand this feature, either….
Open all supported files, allow them to be downloaded/added to library.
(or)
Use firefox to open the site
DOWNTHEMALL
and add to iTunes/WMP
Could we get a early beta release of Songbird on Christmas day? Please!
Well, I’d say it would depend on the context of how it was used.
If added as a playlist, it would appear in the list on the left. It should be treated as a dynamic remote playlist (similar to the way iTunes handles a remote daapd server). It would be dynamic in the sense that it should be checked periodically for updates or changes. Any changes could be indicated visually in the playlist name. In other respects it would be treated like a local playlist.
If opened directly, then it should be treated as a seperate library.
In either case, the system should asynchronously fetch id3v2 (or if not available, id3v1) tags in the background (cached, of course, if saved as a playlist) and update the initial list of filename.ogg or filename.mp3 with the corrected tag information.
Also, in either case, the system should allow an import into the user’s own library (just as if it were ripping it from a CD). I suppose if one were feeling particularly adventurous and helpful, one might retain a tie to the original website URL in the local playlist. This way, the local playlist could be checked against the remote URL and the system could offer to import any new or changed files automagically…
I think integrating URLs with social bookmarking systems such as del.icio.us would be really cool.
I think it should be treated as if it were a podcast. Once added to the library, it should be playable after being downloading only. with a crude presentation like that chances are you dont want to allow direct streaming for the sake of that persons bandwidth considerations.