New Rio Client - Stage 2 Complete

[Tony Tofts]

Hi all,

Stage 2, the scanner, is complete for now (still needs id3v1, and testing
on
a deep nested folder structure)

It provides manual purge/scan options (for the server web interface and xPL
server commands)

Also timed automatic scanning (and a purge can be planned to be performed
on
demand in advance at the same time as the timed scan)

It recursively walks the folder structure during scanning, as this saves
having to store the folder structure in memory or a database table.

You can configure as many base paths as required, so music can be spread
out
between folders/drives/network shares

Next up is Stage 3

This involves starting work on the new Rio client software and it's
interaction with the client control software in the client/server app.

Basically this part is:
Panel/remote commands being passed from Rio to server
Stuff to display being sent to the Rio from the server

This is probably the most involved part of the whole project, so will take
a
while.


On the xPL front the original plan was to match the Rio xPL instance to the
ip address, but to allow for networks where an external dhcp server might
be
used that doesn't support mac/ip address mapping (like an ADSL router) the
server will map the xPL instance to the Rio's mac address. This has the
advantage of ensuring a particular Rio always gets the same xPL instance
regardless of ip address. At least I think I can do this!

Regards
Tony