Re: Front end for MP3 DB using MainLobby

["mcascio1979 <mario@xxxxxxx>" <mario@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

You've got mail. :)

For the benefit of the group, the beauty of MainLobby is that it is 
mostly written in Flash.  Which means it's pretty much open 
architecture and other users can tap into the power.

There are several layers under OPTIONS (RemoteFX, OverlayFX, 
BackgroundFX) that allow the user to import their own SWF file.  As
long as the scripting is compatible with FLashMX you shouldn't have a 
problem.  There's a chance that there could be overlapping variable
names, but I've learned to use unique names which other developers 
should do as well to prevent any duplicate variable names.

Mario Cascio
Cinemar
http://www.cinemaronline.com

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@s...> wrote:
> Having looked more in-depth at MainLobby - I really like it. One of
the
> things I'd like to do is use it to access my MP3 collection. 
However,
> the MP3 collection is very large. I've had a go with JReceiver
using
> Java and mySQL as a backend. It's good but is really designed to 
stream
> MP3's to hardware such as a Rio etc.
> 
>  
> 
> What I'd like to do is write a Flash app that can simply 'drop'
into
> MainLobby and would query the mySQL DB to view playlists etc and 
then
> send the files to something like WinAmp running on the server where
the
> MP3 files exist. WinAmp then outputs directly to my whole-house
Amp.
> 
>  
> 
> I know Director can talk SQL (via a plugin), and I guess Flash can
do
> the same with some Actionscript.
> 
>  
> 
> Any thoughts on this? Anyone know of a flash app that already does
> something similar? Having this kind of functionality within ML 
would be
> really powerful (There already is some kind of MP3 player add-on to
ML
> but I would imagine it's not setup to deal with 30,000 MP3's!!!).
> 
>  
> 
> Paul.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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