Not sure if it makes more sense to post here or on the jinzora boards, but either way..

I finally got around to playing with Jinzora+Chumby. I've only done it via SSH, but it works perfectly with btplay. You can cut and paste a url and use btplay to play it:

btplay "http://192.168.0.134/music/mediabroadcast.php?jz_user=USR431ee16637cd6&sid=S4761ba13209e6&jz_path=T4720acffefcef&action=play&type=track&jza=141e6d2e03f40895888845a2f989e652&ext.mp3"

So it's time to do some real work..

There are 2 things that should be worth doing.. First, Jinzora has a jukebox component to let you play things on a slimserver, vlc, or mpd-based device. There could be a 'Chumby' jukebox to send music straight to the guy.

The second and more important one is to make Jinzora show up in the music channel. I have 0 flash skills, which is really too bad. It's probably best to do this in some way that allows other media-based webapps to work too. We have a REST-like API that can easily be extended to send things like playlist information and genre information.  We can also add a call that gets a random MP3 or playlist given some parameters (genre, recently added, etc)

If anyone is interested in working on this, let me know. If not, I'll head back to the jinzora forums and work from there. If you want to play, I recommend checking out the Jz3 branch or better yet, an SVN snapshot.

Well, with the 2.6.51 beta control panel and the latest Jinzora SVN, there should be a decent way to use the two involving playlists. I haven't been able to test it yet because my chumby is all the way across the country But here's what should work:

1) In jinzora, make a playlist (either dynamic or static).
2) Visit the playlist manager and find your playlist.
3) Copy the URL for the link 'Play this list'

4) On your chumby, we'll add a stream. It's easier to do while SSHed, because the URLs can be quite long and tedious on that touchscreen. But to get a template, go to 'My Streams' and add one. You can edit the name and URL later, but select 'm3u' as the type.
5) SSh into your chumby and edit /psp/url_streams. Set the stream name and URL here. ** Be sure to replace all instances of & with & , as this is an xml file **
6) At the end of the URL, add the following:

&user=USERNAME&pass=PASSWORD

for your username and password. That should be it! It should work, and I'll know for sure when I get back to my chumbo.

Yeah, having a chumby.com page to edit the streams would be great. I don't know if that UID is necessary, which is why I added a placeholder entry via the chumby interface and edited it later. We'd have to check with Duane or someone else..

Player controls would be really great, especially for an M3U. I still want to make a complete, browseable interface  for Jinzora over the Chumby. I've been working on the Jinzora-side API and I have a friend who's great with Flash who might be able to help out. I don't know about control panel integration though..

Hi Duane,

Thanks for the reply. I could make a REST-like API no problem. Jinzora is usually run on a webserver local to the user, and we wouldn't want to require them to use something like mod_rewrite to get things running, so it may be an ugly REST syntax

Also, because it's a locally run app, we don't really have much to say in terms of the reliability of the service, other than our updates. I was really hoping to get some development done that could act as a bridge for any media directory service that wants to play on the chumby. MP3Act and Ampache are other possible open-source choices who could generate some very simple API and XML format that a Chumby can support.