Java MediaPlayer

[PeteManchester]

(28-05-2014 14:06)Cableguy Wrote:  Thank you very much for your mediaplayer!! I think it is really great!

I have it running easily following your instructions.

However, I left it playing as songcast receiver following my Linn DS in the main room. I notice that it seems to break somehow after around a day left like this. When this happens it looks in Kinsky like the time is counting and it being in play state but it is silent. It is not possible to stop and restart from Kinsky or to get it to start playing a playlist track. The only thing to do is to restart it from the web page or restart the raspberry pi. Am I doing something wrong here?

Also, do you think it would be possible to add buttons the raspberry pi for stop, play and source?

Thanks again for your amazing work Is it possible to donate?

Thanks for the feedback

I don't think you are doing anything wrong with Songcast, i'm not sure what the problem is though... I've never been that patient and kept it on the Songcast source that long..
I have just rewritten the Songcast code using the Netty library, which has the advantage of making the code easier to maintain and also some slight performance improvements. What I would suggest is that I push this version to the beta download on Github and if possible if you can test using that version, then if you still have issues I will look at the log files.
The songcast code is ready to be tried, but I was doing some work on the web pages adding a lyric page, so that is not quite ready yet so if you ignore that part for now..

I will let you know when the code is ready to be downloaded, it should only be a couple of days..

I'm still thinking what to do with the PlayerStatus page, as you say stop, play and source controls could be added and there are lots of different possibilities, but I don't want to create a control point as there are a lot of good control points already.. I'm in the process of adding a lyric page at the moment, I am thinking of having a break from working on MediaPlayer over the summer, just doing bug fixes and then start again later in the year.

Thanks for the offer of a donation, at the moment I don't have anything setup for that. I'm not sure how many people are using MediaPlayer and if it's worth setting up a website/forum for it yet.. Maybe if you want to make a donation you could donate to Simon if you haven't already, as I am using his forum pages and he has the expense of supporting lots of different NAS boxes...

Thanks again,

Pete.