trex666
Great little app
Few bugs tho (some nasties too)
The psp can randomly crash (ie turn off completely) after starting songs (experienced under musicdb:// bookmark while starting a song then navigating quickly down while its doing http stuff. I cant be sure its related though)
The xbox can loose video output (occurred on two separate xboxs one running 720p the other 480i) randomly yet audio works correctly and xbox is still responsive through the psp. I experienced this after changing songs under musicdb:// on the psp. Unfortunately the xbmc log provides nothing useful
Code:
17:25:41 M: 21413888 DEBUG: HttpApi Finished command: addtoplaylist
17:25:41 M: 21413888 DEBUG: webs: accept request
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: XBMCHTTPShim: Received command addtoplaylist (musicdb://5/2/521/7429.mp3)
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: HttpApi Start command: addtoplaylist paras: addtoplaylist; musicdb://5/2/521/7429.mp3
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: HttpApi Finished command: addtoplaylist
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: webs: accept request
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: XBMCHTTPShim: Received command addtoplaylist (musicdb://5/2/521/7423.mp3)
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: HttpApi Start command: addtoplaylist paras: addtoplaylist; musicdb://5/2/521/7423.mp3
17:25:42 M: 21413888 DEBUG: HttpApi Finished command: addtoplaylist
This issue seems isolated to this app. Other people using the httpapi don't seem to be affected. Any thoughts?
Some other bugs im sure your aware of,
Thumbnails are not working with v0.6 (tried changing the path in index.lua to userdata/music/thumbnails/ but it didnt help)
The time counter does not count up. Perhaps it should count locally on the PSP and be synced only when doing other communications up or until a counter reaches x seconds. Limiting transmitting will help save battery life too!
As well,
I use the music database as it is the most powerful way to use music with xbmc. I think its a very important feature for this remote app to support. At the moment it is very usable by using a bookmark with the path of musicdb:// but lacks some key features.
All items in a directory are not added to the playlist (so it will only play 1 track at a time unless I enqueue an album then play the album under playlist)
The library uses multiple fields to assemble the title but due to the remote being geared towards filelistings these other fields are not fetched. Idealy one could define the way to display a track ie. in settings.ini "trackdisplay = "%Track. %Artist - %Title" and album display "albumdisplay = "%artist - %albumtitle"
The above solution also solves sorting issues (all tracks only display the title and therefor are sorted by title)
The last part of this post is a feature request but I am unsure if the httpapi even supports it.
library search!
This would require a virtual keyboard but the display and browsing of the information should be simple and would be fantastic for parties and such.
This app has changed how i usually interface with xbmc and gets dropped jaws from everyone who visits. Thanks to all of the contributors to this app!
I've been tinkering in the code a bit so ill see if I cant figure out how to implement some of this but don't hold your breath
Thanks
Loto