RE: Some thoughts on xplmedianet and how to implement

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> My problem with using the database approach in xPLRioNet has
> always been
> that selecting music by genre (for example) returns a list of
> tracks, where
> it would be more useful (to me, at least), to get a list of
> albums (or > artists, even).

Will look into this when building the scanner

> Will there be any management of clients' access to hardware
> resource?  I'm
> thinking along the lines of a PC running several clients where it's
> perfectly possible to be viewing pictures and listening to
> music at the same
> time (two clients running simultaneously), but if a movie is
> played, it
> occupies both the audio and video systems.

Not sure I follow.

Any client can play/display anything at anytime (e.g. an MVP can actually
play music AND display pictures at the same time)

No client effects what another client can be doing, regardless of what any
other client is doing (the only exception is that an mvp playing a movie
can't be doing anything else)

> Can we also require that clients respond to xPL commands to
> play a media > file, rather than just ones they request?

All clients will support full xpl control

> I.e. the client requests a list of files from the core, and
> when a selection
> is made, sends an xPL message to the core requesting the
> file.

Not sure this is necessary.

Since the client will receive an xpl command, it then does it's internal
stuff (with the core) to get at the track (or whatever) as if it was
requesting it itself (actually it _is_ requesting it itself)

E.g. queue a track, play

This is no different to the web interface that will control the clients via
xpl

Regards
Tony




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