Be in your Stereo is a plugin to SoundPlay that scans your BFS volumes
for digital music files. It builds a cross-referenced index of your
collection based on Artist, Genre, Year, and Album BFS attributes, then
serves up views of your track list and collection via HTTP. It is ideal
for building a home audio server.
In addition to your current play list and cross-referenced views of
your entire music
collection. It will
accept commands to
add chunks of your
collection to the
playlist, and
manipulate playback
in useful detail -
volume, track, track
position, etc.
If you hate the user interface, that's cool - you can try out one of the various skins people have created, or try making your own with the included API.
With the plugin, you can
park a BeOS machine with a modest CPU, quiet fan, networking, audio and
storage hardware next to your stereo, and manipulate it from anywhere
on your home network. The plugin plays nice with the LiveEncoder
included with SoundPlay, so you can easily set up your own radio
station.
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Details about this version:
Fixes:
Added in-skin documentation for how to customize the skin, including a copy of the API.
Bugfix to the plugin's preference panel's treatment of symlinks.
Clicking on the "skin folder" button copies the folder name to the clipboard: handy for pasting into the Expander app.
When removing a song that is currently playing, the plugin tries to play the next song or, if there is none, the previous
song. li
Added a function to the API: biys_list_files, that lists all the audio files found on the user's hard drive.
Included skin change: (play) link moved to filename. Added a "add random files" command. Added in-skin preferences
that let you twiddle various options, but mostly to act as an example for other skin authors that have asked for such a
thing.