Please share your iTunes library here

der kopf · May 3, 2003 12:37PM

I'm trying to set up a website where people can submit their ips of their streaming iTunes. I hope y'all can see the time to go there and submit your ips, or bug reports, or suggestions, or whatever.

Also, for those interested in a repository of listenable libraries, go there!

www.zaan.be/itunes/

It's 0.1, so be patient, it's pretty basic now, but with your help it might become something nice.

ibrowse · May 3, 2003 12:49PM

Awesome idea, I submitted. But one thing you may want to consider; it asks if you are always online, I said no because I am not always on. But now it lists me as not online even when I am. Still it's a good idea.

der kopf · May 3, 2003 12:53PM

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Originally posted by iBrowse

Awesome idea, I submitted. But one thing you may want to consider; it asks if you are always online, I said no because I am not always on. But now it lists me as not online even when I am. Still it's a good idea.

Mucho cool, I'm listening to your library as we speak.

I kind of noticed that 'online?' question was a bit mistaken, so now it reads 'Always online?', which is, well, better.

I truly hope this will have more than a few users. There are plenty of little features which might be possible, if only there were a need.

ibrowse · May 3, 2003 1:41PM

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Originally posted by der Kopf

I kind of noticed that 'online?' question was a bit mistaken, so now it reads 'Always online?', which is, well, better.

Easier to understand, I like. I see a few others have submitted.

ghost_user_name · May 3, 2003 1:56PM

Someone else is doing it too.

http://www.sandman.net/itunes/

Most of it is just close to my taste in music

low-fi · May 3, 2003 6:21PM

You should add a field showing the size of the music library.

mount_my_floppy · May 3, 2003 6:26PM

der Kopf, you need to force them to use to fill in the feilds - you already had some one not fill in anything but still hit submit.

If you need me to show you how to do this in PHP let me know.

der kopf · May 3, 2003 6:57PM

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Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy

der Kopf, you need to force them to use to fill in the feilds - you already had some one not fill in anything but still hit submit.

If you need me to show you how to do this in PHP let me know.

You're right about that. I was thinking this will be in tomorrow's version. I'm thinking JavaScript here, though. Validation of forms would typically be something for the JavaScript/client side.

In any case, how would you test if a string, handed to the php script by a html form is not null (or: if the user has filled out something)?

Right now, I'd use

Code:

if (strcasecmp($string_to_test, '') != 0)

but I don't really know if this is the most efficient way to go. ?

der kopf · May 3, 2003 6:58PM

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Originally posted by low-fi

You should add a field showing the size of the music library.

I'll get on that first thing tomorrow.

brussell · May 3, 2003 7:55PM

Is there a way to test from a web page like yours to see who is currently online and sharing?

mount_my_floppy · May 3, 2003 8:05PM

Yeah thats how I would do it der Kopf

And BRussell yes there is. There is also a way to see how many users are currently listening to music on said library and on top of that see how many users are just idle on that users library AND on top of that limit hte amount of users AND well pretty much what ever you want to do.. Isnt PHP great.

Hey der Kopf, Send me an instant message sometime. I would like to work on this with you if you don`t mind. I was going to get started on my own version of something like this till I seen yours. I would much rather just help you out on yours.

der kopf · May 4, 2003 6:47AM

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Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy

Hey der Kopf, Send me an instant message sometime. I would like to work on this with you if you don`t mind.

That's LOVELY! I'll give you a ring sometime today when you might be awake.

der kopf · May 4, 2003 12:29PM

Well, I just gave the index.html page an iTunes-skinned-look. Go see, you might like it.

ibrowse · May 5, 2003 3:41PM

Looks very nice, you should add into your PHP that it won't let descriptions be all capitals. I mean, I'm sure they're excited about their music, but I'm not that excited. iTunes theme looks nice though.

torifile · May 5, 2003 3:51PM

Looks good, der kopf. I'd recommend having a little more structure to the genre category so you can make it searchable when it gets big enough. You could have a dozen or so generic genre selections and then a comments field for what's the genre field now. Possibly having multiple genres to select for each submission so that people won't be locked into one description. I'd be willing to help with the coding if you need it.

der kopf · May 5, 2003 5:02PM

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Originally posted by torifile

Looks good, der kopf. I'd recommend having a little more structure to the genre category so you can make it searchable when it gets big enough. You could have a dozen or so generic genre selections and then a comments field for what's the genre field now. Possibly having multiple genres to select for each submission so that people won't be locked into one description. I'd be willing to help with the coding if you need it.

very good point torifile. I guess this'll get into the next version, when we get the chance to migrate to MySQL (instead of just a plain text file). It'll make the data searchable, it'll make the data updateable (! prime feature request, I think). And, of course, there will be added plenty o' validation features, to eliminate the bad entries we have now (sometimes).

Thanks also for the kind words (all of you).

And yes, apparently, BRussell, mount_my_floppy is on that right now.

In any case, spread the word!

EDIT: I forgot to add: that migration will be, I'm guessing, wednesday, or around that. You should see plenty of goodness by then. The layout should be brushed up as well.

der kopf · May 5, 2003 5:09PM

torifile, I would like to take your explanation on how to set up a wifi network to stream, from the other thread, and put it in the FAQ on the site, if you don't mind. Seeing it's a real good explanation.

Think about it.

And to everybody else, I'm desperately looking for submissions for the FAQ page. Yes, questions too. If you have something, just drop a line. k?

torifile · May 5, 2003 5:56PM

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Originally posted by der Kopf

torifile, I would like to take your explanation on how to set up a wifi network to stream, from the other thread, and put it in the FAQ on the site, if you don't mind. Seeing it's a real good explanation.

Think about it.

And to everybody else, I'm desperately looking for submissions for the FAQ page. Yes, questions too. If you have something, just drop a line. k?

Sure thing. I'd be honored.

der kopf · May 5, 2003 6:12PM

Allright, torifile, you'll see it pop up soon enough.

You can all view your ip addresses on my site, with this page. Included because some people actually entered IP addresses of the form 192.168.x.x, which, some of you'll know better than me, are not valid internet IPs (they are addresses on the local network).

torifile · May 5, 2003 6:29PM

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Originally posted by der Kopf

Allright, torifile, you'll see it pop up soon enough.

You can all view your ip addresses on my site, with this page. Included because some people actually entered IP addresses of the form 192.168.x.x, which, some of you'll know better than me, are not valid internet IPs (they are addresses on the local network).

Here's a relatively easy idea to help make that page even more useful. Make a link that passes that is clickable to pass that info to the submit page. Something really easy like passing the value in a variable and using "value=$ip" for the text field so that it's already populated.

Sample code:

Code:

$ip =GetHostByName ($REMOTE_ADDR );

<a href="http://127.0.0.1/iptesting.php?ip=<?php echo $ip ?>">Click here</a>

and then on the submit page:

Code:

der kopf · May 5, 2003 6:49PM

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Originally posted by torifile

Here's a relatively easy idea

Consider it done. No really, it's done. Thanx for the idea and the code sample.

BTW, I'm using the global variable

Code:

$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]

to find out the user's IP address. Pretty straightforward, didn't know it existed untill today.

Please share your iTunes library here

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