Jukebox mode?

[sprnza]

Hi there!
Just curious. Why jukebox mode is not goin to be implemented? Is there some technical limitations or it's just strategic decision?

[spl0k]

Hi.
First of all because I'd like to stick to the server concept. Its sole purpose should be serving data to clients requesting it, not acting like some audio player.
Furthermore I don't want to add dependencies on audio processing libraries or other specific software.

[sprnza]

@spl0k, thanks for the reply.

[anarcat]

plenty of audio servers actually do implement audio playback. mpd for example, is one of those. subsonic is another one. :)

i would encourage you to reconsider; I'm considering switching away from MPD and two things are missing in the Subsonic ecosystem for me:

1. a proper desktop client - nothing you can do about here of course
2. a lightweight server - supysonic looks like a nice alternative, but is lacking jukebox support

How would one implement a jukebox with supysonic? Is there a dumb, headless Subsonic player that would obey Jukebox commands? This would be weird because the API requests would need to be channeled through a different endpoint...

Playing audio is not that complicated... In the past, I've had good luck with pygame to play simple sounds, but music players like Quodlibet talk with gstreamer through the gi interface. MusicPlayer is another that has its own library that could be interesting...

[spl0k]

It's been some time, but the 0.5.0 version finally brings the jukebox mode.

Rather than adding some audio playback library I went on using an user-defined external player (such as mplayer). Because of this there might be a small error in playback progress and you won't be able (yet?) to set the output volume.
Users will need a new role to be able to use the jukebox.
This jukebox mode requires the daemon to be running.
Some details can be found on the documentation.

It might need some more work but it seems to be working well enough.

🎄 Merry Christmas 🎁

[clach04]

Worth closing this ticket down now that this feature is available?

[spl0k]

Hello. I tend to leave issues open when I consider more work could be put into it, but I don't remember what I had in mind with this one. So I'll close it ;)