- Full support of artist / songname :
To make it easy to search for a artist .. a song .. I decide to use a SQL database.
With this method you can use really large scale of mp3. I test that with over 7000 mp3s
without any pb !!
So when you add a new song to server or delete a one .. (or more ) you need to run a
small program (mp3sync) to syncr the database with the content of the Hard-drives
To find the artist/album/songname/number of song / date
The script look for the tag in mp3
or comply with this design
/artist/album/song_number - title.mp3
or the warez scheme
/artist - title.mp3
(space are important !!!!! )
| ls -R /mp3/Placebo/ |
/mp3/Placebo/Placebo:
01 - Come Home.mp3
02 - Teenage Angst.mp3
03 - Bionic.mp3
04 - 36 Degrees.mp3
05 - Hang on To Your IQ.mp3
06 - Nancy Boy.mp3
07 - I Know.mp3
08 - Bruise Pristine.mp3
09 - Lady Of The Flowers.mp3
/mp3/Placebo/Without You I'm Nothing:
01 - Pure Morning.mp3
02 - Brick Shithouse.mp3
03 - You Don't Care About Us.mp3
04 - Ask For Answers.mp3
05 - Without You I'm Nothing.mp3
06 - Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth).mp3
07 - The Crawl.mp3
08 - Every You Every Me.mp3
09 - My Sweet Prince.mp3
10 - Summer's Gone.mp3
11 - Scared Of Girls.mp3
12 - Burger Queen.mp3
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Or for singles ..
Sonic Youth - In to the Groove (Covering Madonna).mp3
Sonic Youth - I Love You Mary Jane (Cypress Hill).mp3
Sonic Youth - Ca Plane Pour Moi.mp3
Sonic Youth - Moist Vagina.mp3
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- Support for web hosted mp3s :
One of the most funny feature of mp3sb is that you don't have to store all you mp3 at the same place.
You can use differents filesystems .. and differents workstations without the need of using exported
filesystem like nfs or samba. To do this we code a robot that search for mp3 over your network like this
| mp3sync -add http://p2b/files/mp3/ |
*** scanning http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/ ***
fetch: http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/ ... ok
fetch: http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/ ... ok
fetch: http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/ ... ok
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/01%20-%20SunBurn.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/02%20-%20Muscle%20Museum.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/03%20-%20Fillip.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/04%20-%20Falling%20Down.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/05%20-%20Cave.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/06%20-%20Showbiz.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/07%20-%20Unintended.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/08%20-%20Undo.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/09%20-%20Sober.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/10%20-%20Escape.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/11%20-%20Overdue.mp3
new : http://p2b/mp3/files/big/music/Muse/Showbiz/12%20-%20Hate%20This%20&%20I'll%20Love%20you.mp3
12 new files, 0 files gone, 0 up-to-date entries found
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And yes this method use the same scheme for finding the artist / song ..name.
- Support of playlist / queue :
You can have some playlist and use them as queue because if you add a song to playlist
the server will detect it and add it will you playing music .
- Support different kind of playing mode :
SHUFFLE / REPEAT SONG / REPEAT PLAYLIST / SCAN (only play the first 10 sec of a song)
are really well easy to use i think. You have no need to reload the playlist to disable
playlist .. and stuff like this.
- Support for statistics :
The number of played song is stored in the database. So you can know which song you
heard most of the time .. things like "top 10" of played artists ..
statistics are updated at the middle of the song because I usuallly heard "Sonic Youth" songs
that ended with a lot of noise that i skip:))
- Support stranges things :
You can change the volume from remote, shutdown computer ..
The mpg123 version of mp3sb support more things like the equaliser / ESD.
Another feature is that you can heard the sound on other workstation by using
esd. I code a small prog called esdroute that connect to a remote host, catch the current
sound and reroute it to another workstation. I use it to have the same sound on the both
workstation of my room. But be aware that this use a lot of bandwith (200K!!) .I really like
esd with this you can ever have some vumeter or stuff like that.
