ghedamat/ruby-ampache

Ampache ruby client - maybe one day

ruby-ampache¶ ↑

Ruby-ampache is a really simple command line player for the ampache music server.

Installation¶ ↑

You need to have mplayer installed to use ruby-ampache. Mplayer is used for playing music streams.

I’ve recently changed the way mplayer is invoked as mplayer slave mode is great, but not good to manage playlists.. I’m still testing it right now but it should work far better.

A few options have been added to the menu and most of all it is full of colors now!

Gem can be installed as usual

gem install ruby-ampache

Usage¶ ↑

First you have to write a .ruby-ampache file and save it in your $HOME

example file:

AMPACHE_HOST="http://path_to_your_ampache_host"
AMPACHE_USER="username"
AMPACHE_USER_PSW="userpsw"
#optional (default is /usr/bin/mplayer)
MPLAYER_PATH="/usr/bin/mplayer"

Simply execute ruby-ampache that should be found in you $PATH after installation

TODO¶ ↑

This is an alpha version and still has some issues. If you kill the application mplayer will continue to run in background. Also sometimes if mplayer get stucked playing a song the app does the same.

If you found more issues please let me know and I’ll try to fix them as soon as possible

• fix encoding issues with file metadata retrieved from mplayer

Notes¶ ↑

Special thanks goes to the developer of mplayer-ruby gem. I’ve borrowed a couple of methods from his useful library

Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 ghedmat. See LICENSE for details. Please drop me a line if you find this useful

ruby-ampache's Issues

fails with servers on ports other than 80

The server URI is parsed in such a way that it always attempts to make connections on port 80.

Simple patch:

--- lib-ampache.rb.orig 2012-09-05 15:57:19.000000000 +0100
+++ lib-ampache.rb  2012-09-05 15:40:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -24,13 +24,14 @@
     uri = URI.parse(host)
     @host = uri.host
     @path = uri.path
+    @port = uri.port
     @user = user
     @psw = psw
     @token = nil
     @token = getAuthToken(user, psw)
   end

-  attr_accessor :host, :path, :user, :psw, :token, :playlist
+  attr_accessor :host, :path, :user, :psw, :token, :playlist, :port

   # tryies to obtain an auth token
   def getAuthToken(user, psw)
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
     begin
       args['auth'] ||= token if token
       url = path + "/server/xml.server.php?action=#{method}&#{args.keys.collect { |k| "#{k}=#{args[k]}" }.join('&')}"
-      response = Net::HTTP.get_response(host, url)
+      response = Net::HTTP.get_response(host, url, port)
       return Nokogiri::XML(response.body)
     rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED => e
       warn "Ampache closed with the following error"

if search fails ...

in search fails it print ALL artist.. WRONG?

documentation!

! :)

Shuffle Feature

It would be nice to have a option in the menu to shuffle the current playlist. I don't think it need to shuffle automatically but it would be nice to have an option that just shuffles the order if you want to.

High cpu usage under Cygwin Ruby

Hi

When I use your tool, ruby .exe(under cygwin) is using %25 cpu and mplayer uses another %25 on dual core. This sounds alot of simply playing streaming video.

Anyways great tool, keep up the great work.

freezing when title gets fails

gets call sometimes hang up

test on ruby1.9

restore ticket

after two h of playing token expires and you have to quit ruby-ampache

please add a check and renew the ticket automagically

refresh ticket

after 2 h of playing ticket expires...

add a refresh ticket option to main menu