[Tjukebox-general] AJAX and random song wait time.

[Kevin N. <bea...@ya...>]

Hey Tim,
Hopefully you get this and have something to add:
I've been working on tjukebox again.   I created a PHP
web client which works pretty well.  There's one thing
you might be able to help with.  The console client
keeps the socket connection open so it constantly
recieves updates from the server on the current song. 
The web client, on the otherhand, get's it's
information and closes the socket.  I want to try to
ensure that the "current song" name is correct.  I
could do this by forcing the entire page to reload
every 10 second, but that's annoying.  I know
Javascript does not support socket connections, but It
can do AJAX.

Do you know how we cound harness the AJAX functions to
get the current artist, album, and song from the
tjukebox server.

Also, I want to implement a wait time between playing
random songs.  Usually at bars if the jukebox is quiet
for so many minutes, it'll play a rondom song and sit
there for a few minutes again.  I have a wait_time
parameter in the tjukeboxd.conf file, and the jukebox
will currently only play random songs if this flag is
set to some value.

I was thinking that when the playlist is empty, a new
thread could be created to count the wait time.  When
the timer completes, it will add a random song to the
queue.  If a song is added to the queue before the
timer is done, there will need to be some way to kill
the thread.  I'm sure it's all easy to do, I just have
to learn.  If you see any potential problems with
this, let me know.

Kevin


 
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