darep/beatstream

Music streaming server/app

Beatstream

IMPORTANT: I have been experimenting with some re-writes and I'm now slowly porting these changes from my dev branch into master. Stay tuned!

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Beatstream is an app for streaming music from your computer to anywhere with a modern Web browser! (Beatstream currently requires Ruby to be installed on your computer)

Installation

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/Darep/Beatstream.git
$ cd Beatstream
$ bundle
$ rake db:migrate
$ cp config/initializers/music_paths.rb.sample config/initializers/music_paths.rb
$ nano config/initializers/music_paths.rb
-> Change 'music_path'
$ rails console
-> User.create(:username => 'you', :email => '[email protected]', :password => 'secret', :password_confirmation => 'secret')
-> exit
$ rails server -d

Open Chrome and surf to http://0.0.0.0:3000 address. Log in and wait when indexing ends, refresh page and happy listening!

Known issues

HTTPS/SSL: When running in production environment, the app forces SSL on. To disable this, change config.force_ssl in config/environments/production.rb to false and it shouldn't redirect to https.

Last.fm: You need to manually go to https://localhost:3000/settings and do the authentication there.

Media Library: Opens a blank page after refresh is done. Just go back, and start listening :)

Flash/Firefox crash: Beatstream's Flash plugin (SoundManager2) crashes sometimes. Restart browser / Flash.

UTF-8 problems: Sometimes song info looks garbled. Sometimes Beastream can't play songs with funny characters in filenames or paths.

Endlessly spinning loader: You probably have a Flash block of some kind. Allow Beatstream to use Flash.

These are also listed on http://www.beatstream.fi/#quirks.

License

Copyright (c) 2012–2015 Antti-Jussi Kovalainen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software with only one restriction: selling of the Software, or software and associated documentation files derived from it (the "Derived software"), is only permitted with the permission of the copyright owner.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

beatstream's Issues

Add transcoding support

Support for transcoding files that are in format that isn't supported in client applications, ie. browsers support different codecs and containers etc.

Show files with invalid UTF8 byte order

Sometimes users might have MP3 files that have invalid UTF-8 byte order in the filename. Tell the user that there are issues with their MP3 files.

Media library re-index UX is stupid

There is no visible indicator for the re-indexing process and after it is done, you see a blank page.

Proposed implementation:

1. Use AJAX
2. Add a "Indexing..." -indicator on the top bar when it is indexing
3. Show a visible message when indexing is complete
4. Refresh "All Music" -view with the new songs

Can´t make login in system

I have a problem after login. Every time that I try to login, I will redirected to login page again. This error show on server log

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/api/v1/profile"):

Where is the js and css files in Dev branch?

When I load the application in Dev branch the app can´t load css and js. I didn´t find any of this file in the Project folder.

Seekbar fix & Firefox compatibility (try SoundManager 2)

There are issues with the seekbar and the player not working with Firefox. SoundManager 2 might solve these problems!

URL: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

Fix Firefox visual issues

The UI is not as pretty in Firefox as it could be. The CSS is missing -moz vendor prefixes etc.

replace mp3info with mediainfo

Why don't we use mediainfo instead of mp3info, which will allow us to get media info for files other than mp3 e.g. m4a, mp4 etc. I have tried it myself in a cloned repo. Only problem i faced was that default flash player wasn't able to play m4a file, i have changed the default player to html5audio. It seems to work now :)

mediainfo is a wrapper gem for mediainfo library(which can be installed inside ubuntu through sudo apt-get install mediainfo, more info at: http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo)

Save last state

Save the last state. Last song and playlist that was playing. Retrieve last state (song and playlist) on startup and automatically scroll the songlist to the correct location. Just like in rdio ;)

Re-indexing process can be started multiple times

Users can start the re-indexing process as many times as they want while the last re-index is still running. This will eat extra CPU time, there should instead be an alert saying "Re-indexing is already under way!"

Repeat doesn't do anything

It doesn't matter if repeat is on or off, the playlist will always repeat endlessly.

Deploy Beatstream

Hi, is just a little question. What's the best strategy for deploy a Beatstream app? capistrano could be a good choice?

Save song history

Especially when shuffling, it would be nice to be able to go back to the previous song.

Support advanced search strings

Search strings such as:

• "d fast" -- for matching that exact string
• word OR word -- for matching both words (currently everything is AND)

Queue feature

Can add songs to queue, view the queue and such

Playlist doesn't repeat if there is only 1 song

Playlist doesn't repeat if there is only 1 song.

Pre

iPad compatibility

Make Beatstream work on iPad

iPhone compatibility

Make the layout and music playing work on iPhone

No clear "loading" indicator when the app is started

There should be a clear "Loading" indicator when the app is starting (= fetching media library and forming the initial playlist).

ActiveRecord error on fresh set-up

Installing fresh on my machine and loading up 0.0.0.0:3000 shows me ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in MainController#index page.

Error:
Couldn't find User without an ID

App Trace:
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:13:in user' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:9:inauthorize'

I get around it by changing application_controller.rb
@user ||= User.find(session[:user_id])
to
@user ||= User.find_by_email('hardcoded_email')

Add Nyanalyzer

Timo Mihaljov suggested that a Nyanalyzer should be added. Nyanalyzer is a nyan-cat inspired audio analyzer used in Clementine.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqygUDyzxtg&feature=youtu.be

Use Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all tracks

Pressing Ctrl/Cmd+A should select all tracks on the currently visible view / playlist.

Support for multiple music_paths

Iconv deprecated

Since iconv was deprecated in 1.9.3, I wasn't able to run the database migration until including iconv in the Gemfile.

Create install guide for Apache+Passenger

Create a install guide on how to install and run Beatstream on Apache+Passenger combo.

Evaluate Howler

https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/

Display "Flash blocked" text when Flash is blocked

Sorting can take a long time and there is no indicator

Whenever you click to sort the playlist, there is no indicator that the app is sorting the playlist which results in the user wondering if the click was received at all.

There should be a clear yet subtle indicator that the app is sorting the playlist.

Running MediaReader.refresh fails to write songs.json

Hey Darep

Thanks for the app. Unfortunately I ran into an error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `to_natural_sort_string' for true:TrueClass
    from /home/mathieu/workspace/beatstream/app/services/media_reader.rb:34:in `each'
    from /home/mathieu/workspace/beatstream/app/services/media_reader.rb:34:in `sort_by'
    from /home/mathieu/workspace/beatstream/app/services/media_reader.rb:34:in `refresh'
    from (irb):7
    from /home/mathieu/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/railties-3.2.19/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
    from /home/mathieu/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/railties-3.2.19/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /home/mathieu/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/railties-3.2.19/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

I have no idea where that true could be coming from. Might be a corrupted file. I'm running it on console for now and will probably end up going to use select{|s| s.is_a?(Song)} as a quick fix.

Let me know

Shuffle sometimes plays same song twice

Shuffle sometimes chooses the same song as before. That's dumb.

Hangs on preloader on Samsung Android 3.2 & 2.2

Infinite preloading. Cannot use. Tested on Samsung tablet and phone.

Add support for PS3 browser

Playing fails on Firefox w/ Flashblock

Flashblock blocks the SoundManager 2 flash on Firefox and the playing silently fails.

Solution: Display a visible alert telling the user to disable Flashblock here.

Automatically play "Cheap trick - Mighty Wings (Top Gun)" when the clock nears 11am

If the user has Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick (from the Top Gun soundtrack) in his music library, play this song when the clock is nearing 11 am. This will signal that it's time for lunch.

Also, some glorious message that "your player has been taken over. It's 11 am"

Flash plugin crashes a lot for certain people

Playing sometimes silently stops

Sometimes, after a song has played, the player will not advance to the next song but instead just stop playing.

This probably has something to do with the HTML5 tag.

Artist / album browser

Add into the left sidebar just below "All Music":

1. Links to "Artists & Albums"
2. Cool looking view of artists and albums
3. Profit!

Bigdata: Listing of songs that people are listening AND are going to listen next

Idea from Rafu

Can scroll over the border horizontally

User can scroll horizontally to move the app so that it looks broken. See image.

Last.fm connection UX is bad

It's just confusing. Try it. Should be better.