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

[Tim N. <zi...@cs...>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:40:33PM -0800, Kevin Nowaczyk wrote:
> 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.
>
It might be most flexable if the communication between the clients and
server was in the form of XML.  Google for WSDL and/or SOAP.  This way you also
aren't having to do your own raw TCP/IP connections.

> Do you know how we cound harness the AJAX functions to
> get the current artist, album, and song from the
> tjukebox server.
>
A first step might be doing this.

> Also, I want to implement a wait time between playing
> random songs.

You pretty much have it figured out.

The Jukebox server needs a new variable let's call waittime_thread.
When a new song is added to the playlist if the list is empty and
waittime_thread is not null, kill waittime_thread then add the new song.
The function of waittime_thread is then simply to wait for x minutes
then add a random song to the playlist and then end.  It's been a long
time since I've done any mutli-threaded c++ programming, so I can't
really be of any more help.

Good luck.
Tim

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