Play songs natively from SMB or WebDAV locations

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: daschuer
Date: 2012-01-18T14:36:57Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp918222
Tags: cloud, library

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Wishlist:

It would be nice if Mixxx could handle URI locations natively.
On Linux, Mixxx can only handle those location when mounted into the local file system.

We should consider to store the track location as URI in the Mixxx database like many other players.

When running on a Gnome desktop the access to Samba, WebDAV and other popular protocols can achieved by GIO and GVfs.
I am sure there are appropriate solutions for the other platforms as well.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2019-08-19T18:49:15Z

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gvfs does it flawlessly. To solve this we need to combine Glib calls with Qt calls.
This is a bit chalanging, but can be a fun project. Pacmanfm-qt includes many of the required tricks.
https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2019-08-19T19:59:22Z

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We need to consider the performance issue as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1488046

At least I can use the "Computer" feature to browse to:
/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=wohnzimmer,share=volume/Musik
And play tracks.

Also adding this folder as library works.

[f4iey]

Hi,
Is this issue still investigated?
Is there also a workaround for webdavs ?

[daschuer]

There is nothing in progress unfortunately. On which OS are you? The workaround is to mount the location into the file system.

[f4iey]

I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma

For now I tried to add the library using the webdavs url.

I have no idea how to mount it directly on my filesystem.

[daschuer]

It looks like you may use: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Davfs2

[f4iey]

It looks like you may use: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Davfs2

Thanks, I'll take a look.