VoteMPD

• Author: Felix Sterzelmaier
• Version 0.8.9
• Date: 1. April 2019
• Github Page: http://k3x.github.io/VoteMPD/
• Github Code: https://github.com/k3x/VoteMPD
• Github Git URL: https://github.com/k3x/VoteMPD.git

VoteMPD allows your party guests to fill the queue of your MusicPlayerDaemon. Just run this Script on a server and make it availiable over wifi. See also: http://getfestify.com

• Install instructions (Variant A)
• Install instructions (Variant B)
• Rescan instructions

Features

• Scan Filesystem and fill id3 information into database
• Scan m3u playlists ans fill information into database
• Allow users to vote for songs via a mobile friendly webpage
• MPD queue is filled with highest voted songs
• Delete own votes
• Show highscore
• Upload/Download mp3 files

Language

• Errors are always in english
• If you want the interface to be english instead of german: ** Delete index.html and rename index_en.html to index.html. ** in script.js.php, line 26: $language = "en";

Further information / find errors

• if you configured mpd to use alsa and you can not hear music check "alsamixer". Also check that no channel is muted.
• ncmpc is a commandline mpd client
• for uploading files your folder has to be writeable

Playlists Information

• .m3u playlists with one song per line. Linebreaks: \x0D\x0A Charset: UTF-8 (with Byte Order Mark (BOM), so files start with \xEF\xBB\xBF)
• Paths have to be relative to your root dir. For example: "somedir/somefile.mp3" (without quotes)

Used Librarys

• phpMp3 (for MPD communication) http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmp3
• getID3 (for getting id3 tags) http://getid3.sourceforge.net

todo's

License

VoteMPD is free software. It is released under the terms of the following BSD License.

Copyright © 2018 by Felix 'K3X' Sterzelmaier

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of VoteMPD nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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