important! this repo is unmaintained

liquiwave

Need to have installed:

• Debian v8.0-v9.0
• Wget
• VLC v2.2.7
• Nodejs v8+
• NPM v5+

apt-get install wget vlc nodejs npm -y

Description

local webclient to listen to audio, either from local filesystem or through say a youtube url pasted in the textbox.

** livestreams not supported

Installation

Clone repo then cd into it..

install dependencies

npm install

Configure the port you want to use at local ip

nano app.js

const port = 1337

Configure port and set a password for vlc under [credentials]

nano player/vlc.js

// use a different port than app.js!
const vlcPort = 7331 
const vlcPasswd = "secret"

Start the server

node app.js

Visit http://[local ip]:[port] using the port defined in app.js

Create playlist from a Local directory

To add local directory to app

nano tree.js

Enter path

// absolute path preferred
const local = "/your/path/to/local/directory" 

Execute

node tree.js

pro-tip: If it's a big directory you might want to grab a coffee

enjoy!

** Currently only one object is supported

** Recommended to put everything under one directory, for example a "dummy" linux home directory "/home/media/"

** files extensions will be sorted by the application code and need no pre-formatting

Docs

client scripts

public/scripts/traverse.js

• This contain the logic that traverses the JS object that shadows the filesystem.
• includes functions to create HTML elements and place them in a container.
• responsible for requesting the file to be played at the server.
• keep search history in local storage of your browser.

public/scripts/client.js

• This contains code to control vlc from the client and get the xml data

server scripts

player/vlc.js

• This file spawns a child process to launch vlc on server on a different process

player/vlc_config.js

• It's command [args]

player/commands.js

• This file translates client string types to their equivalent shell commands

tree.js

tree.js

• This file takes a starting directory and creates a JSON object representing it's hierarchy recursively, consisting of nested object-arrays.