XMMS iNetCtl Plugin V1.2
by Gerry Duprey <gerry@cdp1802.org>
Overview
XMMS Network control plugin
iNetControl allows a client on a local or remote system to be able to control the XMMS
player via an easy to use/parse text line oriented interface. The protocol used is
similar to the FTP command protocol.
Clients can control the following aspects of the XMMS player:
Loading/playing of playlists
Loading/playing of music files
Loading/playing of URLs
Pausing and stopping play
Moving to the next/previous track in a playlist
Changing volume
Changing players repeat and shuffle status
Requesting and controlling format of status messages
Shutdown XMMS
Clients receive from the XMMS player:
Status updates whenever the playlist changes
Status updates whenever the track changes
Ongoing play status updates (i.e. position in current track).
As of this release, there is no network security, though the hooks are already built in
to the code for upcoming security checks (in inetctl.c). By default, iNetControl
listens on port 1586 (that can be changed in the configuration).
You can go directly to the SourceFroget download site by
clicking here or go to
the project page for iNetCtrl by clicking here to
review release notes, post enhancement requests and bug reports, etc.
This plugin was based on code samples and ideas from the following plugins
xmms-mpcp Vadim Berezniker vadim@berezniker.com
xmms-infopipe by Urpo Lankinen wwwwolf@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/wwwwolf
xmms-osd by Andre Renaud andre@ignavus.net http://www.ignavus.net/software.html
xmms-shell by Logan Hanks logan@vt.edu
Check out INSTALL for information on building and installing the plugin
Check out inetctrl.txt for information on using the plugin to control XMMS.
Version History
August 11, 2002 - V1.2
Fixed a race condition when connections are closed
Shutdown/cleanup bugs fixed
Unformatted times are all now in MILLISECONDS (vs the old seconds)
New commands added:
- PLAYLIST_UDPATES [on/off] - enable notification of changes to playlist contents
- REQUEST PLAYLIST_TRACKS - return a list of all current tracks in playlist
- JUMP_TO_TRACK x - jump to track #x in the playlist
- JUMP_TO_TIME x - jump to "x" seconds into the currentplay playing track (absolute)
- HIDE_PLAYER - hides all XMMS GUI windows
- APPEND_FILE x appends file x to end of current playlist
- REMOVE_TRACK x Removes track #x from the current playlist
- NEXT_TRACK/PREV_TRACK x - takes an optional number, x, of track to move forward/backward
April 30, 2002 - V1.1.5
Only a minor change to include netinet/in.h for systems where that isn't a default. No new features
January 2002 - V1.1.4
Now includes documentation
Initial security support
Rewritten command parser to allow much easier expansion
November 2001 - V1.0 -1.1.3
Initial creation and subsequent feature enhancement (pre-public)