Hi Nigel --

As usual, thanks for all your hard work!!

Ok, so I have a samba/cifs server configured on a Debian Lenny box. Have had this up for a quite a while. No problem mounting the share on Windows (or Ubuntu for that matter). Right now I am just getting the 'Loading Filelist' message forever. So I think I have the share name botched up. I have the same username and password that works for all the other accessors to the share.

What would the format of the "Share Name" be for the config screen @ chumby.com?

for example the mp3's I have in a directory structure under

/home/JJ/music/<subfolders>     on the Debian server. (192.168.1.14)

When I want to mount the share under windows its \\192.168.0.14\JJ

Also will it find files recursively in sub-folders?

Hi Joan,
"loading filelist" suggests its not seeing the share.
My best guess at your config would be
Server name 192.168.1.14
Share name JJ
User name - depneds on your share setup if you have a specific account use it, if the shares is setup for "everyone" then just put any name in to keep Debian  happy e.g. duduser
password - put in the users password if you have one or just leave blank

When the app finds the shares you should see a file tree showing music/<subfolders

hope this helps

cheers

Nigel

Hi eTrex,
thanks for the feedback.

The problem you are seeing is a general issue with the built in adobe flash player - its a bit flacky.

So much so that the chumby guys installed their own additional player called btplay.

An option I would probabaly look at down the track would be to swap from using adobe flash to btplay but there are some tradeoffs.

For now though sorry its a bit hit and miss.

cheers

Nigel

Hi Woody,
thats a lot of files. I suspect whats happening is because the script is taking 15 minutes to build the file the adobe client is timing out - this is similar to what a browser does and is basically a part of the HTTP protocol. Normally these timeouts are set to about 3 minutes. The obvious answer is to group your files into shares of smaller numbers of files.

In answer to your question - yes the blue screen appears at the start of the widget for about 15 seconds and provides various bits of feedback to the user e.g. server parameters etc.

hope this helps.

cheers

Nigel

Hi Woody,
anything is possible but in practise the shortcomings (biiger code, longer load times etc) make it hard to justify. If you have multiple shares just create a different widget for each share and then select which widget you want.

cheers

Nigel

great work. thank you.

on the app notes, could you explain what you mean by this --> "You need to configure a share in chumby.com"?
I thought I would just be adding my PC's IP address and a share name

Thanks

I can get my music to stream, but for the GUI, im only seeing
[type function],[type function]      (and perhaps more but its cut out)
for the track listings, meaning, im not seeing any files, only that single line of code

some tracks skip, perhaps if we could choose the amount of pre-buffer before playing a new song...

I do not get it to work with my NAS, I have a Lacie Network Space, I have saved the music in the folder: Openshare/music, but the widget does not see anything.

I'll just point out that I can mount and use LaCie NetworkSpace2 share as root with command:
mount -t cifs //<ns2 ip address>/OpenShare /tmp/OpenShare -o userid=guest,password=guest

Hello Nigel and all,

I have a chumby one and like to mount my nfs-directory. First of all I thought i need to add it to /etc/fstab
(need to make root writeable: mount -no remount,rw /). I added this line, but the directory is not mounted automatically.
192.168.0.xx:/home/chumby/music /mnt/storage/nfsmnt nfs ro,nolock,soft,bg,async,exec 0 0

But this does not mount the file-system automatically, when rebooting. Do you have any suggestion how to do it?

Than I found your program - looks promising.

I stared it, but it does not execute the perl-script on my chumby one.
The USB-Music player parses the perl. It is the same program with other names and it executes the USB. So, I started to have a look in the script.

I have some comments to the perl-scripts:

usbmusic.pl (line 27/28):
This does not do anything - on my chumby one usb is automatically mounted to /mnt/usb, which is a symbolic link to the usb-directory (you also refer to it in line 35):
  system("umount /tmp/usb > /psp/cgi-bin/photos.tmp");
  system("mount /tmp/usb > /psp/cgi-bin/photos.tmp");

lanmusic.pl (line 37) does return an error - the path is not existing and the kernel module is already loaded:
  system("insmod /drivers/$fields[1].ko >> /psp/cgi-bin/lanmusicsh.tmp");

lanmusic.pl (line 38):
system("mount -t $fields[1] //$fields[2]/$fields[3] /psp/cgi-bin/mus/ -o ro,username='$fields[4]',password='$fields[5]' >> /psp/cgi-bin/lanmusicsh.tmp");

This is the wrong syntax for mounting nfs, but works for cifs. It is supposed to look like this (for some reason chumby requires the nolock - otherwise it hangs in the mount forever).
system("mount -t $fields[1] $fields[2]:/$fields[3] /psp/cgi-bin/mus/ -o ro,nolock >> /psp/cgi-bin/lanmusicsh.tmp")

Since the lan script did not work for me - I used the usb:
mkdir /psp/cgi-bin/usb
ln -s /mnt/usb /psp/cgi-bin/usb/usb
ln -s /mnt/storage/nfsmnt /psp/cgi-bin/usb/nfsmnt

and replaced line 23-35 by (I would of course need the full nfs-mount if I would not have it in nfs)
  system("mount /mnt/storage/nfsmnt > /psp/cgi-bin/photos.tmp");

Now the music-player works for both (usb and nfsmnt). Thanks Nigel, for the nice program.

I have a question regarding all players on chumby, I have seen so far. Is it difficult to implement fast forward and backward inside an mp3-file? I have not seen any application doing it so far. And this is something I am really missing.

I have to admit that I did not really succeed in making my own action script. Actually I have played a little bit around with the free tools provided for Linux. But they were either not documented or the interfaces have changed that the examples do not compile. But maybe I just have to dig a little bit deeper into it.

remmi