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BTPlay is an external music player that is used by the chumby Control Panel to play audio files and streams asynchronously.  It is implemented as a persistent daemon that is controlled by a UNIX pipe, typically from the Flash Lite Player, or through some stub applications.
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BTPlay is an external music player that is used by the chumby Control Panel to play audio files and streams asynchronously.  It is implemented as a persistent daemon that is controlled by a UNIX pipe, typically from the Flash Lite Player, or through some stub applications. When invoked as btplayd, it remains resident as a daemon; once the daemon is running, it can be controlled by running btplay. Note that the information on this page does not apply to the Sony Dash.
  
 
=Flash Interface=
 
=Flash Interface=
Several ASnative() calls have been added to the Flash Lite implementation to control this daemon.  These calls are only available to movies run locally - they cannot be called from widgets.
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Several ASnative() calls have been added to the Flash Lite implementation to control this daemon.  These calls are only available to movies run locally (via -i) - they cannot be called from widgets.
  
 
==PlayAudio==
 
==PlayAudio==
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option listloop <count>
 
option listloop <count>
Loops playback of current playlist. Default is 1. 0 to loop perpetually.
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Loops playback of current playlist. Default is 1, 0 to loop perpetually.
 
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save storage_path
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Save all current playlist and option data to storage_path
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load storage_path
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Load playlist and option data from storage_path. Does not begin playing or stop
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playing current song, but playback will stop after current song.
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playlist length
 
playlist length
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skip offset
 
skip offset
Skip ahead or back in current song by offset milliseconds (which is a signed
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Not implemented in current releases
offset)
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pause
 
pause
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* Revised 30-Aug-2010: removed unimplemented save and load

Latest revision as of 11:39, 30 August 2010

BTPlay is an external music player that is used by the chumby Control Panel to play audio files and streams asynchronously. It is implemented as a persistent daemon that is controlled by a UNIX pipe, typically from the Flash Lite Player, or through some stub applications. When invoked as btplayd, it remains resident as a daemon; once the daemon is running, it can be controlled by running btplay. Note that the information on this page does not apply to the Sony Dash.

Flash Interface

Several ASnative() calls have been added to the Flash Lite implementation to control this daemon. These calls are only available to movies run locally (via -i) - they cannot be called from widgets.

PlayAudio

_PlayAudio = ASnative(5,151);
_PlayAudio('/mnt/usb/somemusicfile.mp3');

PlayLoopCount

_PlayLoopCount = ASnative(5,146);
_PlayLoopCount(10);

Sets the number of times the next file provided to PlayAudio will play.

StopAudio

_StopAudio = ASnative(5,134);
_StopAudio();

PauseAudio

_PauseAudio = ASnative(5,132);
_PauseAudio();

ResumeAudio

_ResumeAudio = ASnative(5,133);
_ResumeAudio();

PlayerState

_PlayerState = ASnative(5,131);
playerState = _PlayerState();

returns -1 if player daemon not running, 0 if paused, 2 if playing a track

SongAttributes

_SongAttributes = ASnative(5,135);
attrs = _SongAttributes();

returns information about the currently playing track, typically MP3 tags and other metadata

AddToPlaylist

The Flash Player has a simple playlist built in, managed with ASnative calls.

_AddToPlaylist = ASnative(5,149);
_AddToPlaylist("audio/mpeg","/mnt/usb/3.mp3", "/mnt/usb/4.mp3", "/mnt/usb/5.mp3" );

adds the paths to the end of the playlist. The first argument should be the mimetype of the files, or "*" for autodetect.

ResetPlaylist

_ResetPlaylist = ASnative(5,150);
_ResetPlaylist();

clears the playlist

SkipToNext

_SkipToNext = ASnative(5,147);
_SkipToNext();

skip to the next item in the playlist

plays the next item in the playlist.

SkipToPrev

_SkipToPrev = ASnative(5,148);
_SkipToPrev();

skip to the previous item in the playlist

Pipe Interface

btplay and btplayd are symlink aliases for the same program. Normally at startup btplayd is invoked, and remains resident, listening for commands on /tmp/.btplay-cmdin and writing command feedback to /tmp/.btplay-cmdout

flashplayer uses the btplay front-end interface (via service_control inetradio) to invoke streaming and local music sources.

This page documents the client-server interface used internally between the client instance (btplay) and the server instance (btplayd).

Interface

On startup btplayd creates a named pipe for command input. The default name is /tmp/.btplay-cmdin

The default output command pipe (used for feedback from commands) is /tmp/.btplay-cmdout

With the exception of playlist, all command verbs (listed below) consist of a single line. Every command verb will have a single-line reply of 256 characters or less consisting of OK <serial> <msg> or ERR <serial> <msg>

Command response should take place immediately. No response indicates a hung btplayd. <serial> is a request serial number optionally issued with each command. For backwards compatibility all commands are accepted without a serial number, but if no serial number is specified 0 will be used in the reply.

There are some limitations built into the interface as it stands currently:

  • No single line may be longer than 1024 characters
  • The total contents of a playlist may not exceed 1024 characters. Multiple playlists may be submitted.
  • A single playlist may not have more than 256 entries.

Verbs

Command verbs should be preceded with [serial] where serial is a nonzero positive integer which is unique for the command pipe. This request serial number will be issued back with the OK or ERR response. Command verbs are:


next
Skip to next song in playlist

prev
Skip to previous song in playlist

play [type|*] [song file]
If song file is specified, cancel any current playback and begin playing song.
If no song file, begin playback of current playlist. When playback is finished,
playback will resume with next song in queue (if queue specified)

type is an optional mime type. btplay can normally figure out the type unless 
the server is really lame and sends something like application/octet-stream 
for the mime type.

playnow [type|*] [song file]
Insert specified song into queue and begin playing immediately. When playback
is finished, song will still be in queue and playback will continue with the next
song in queue.

playnext [type|*] [song file]
Same as play except that specified playback will begin after current song
finishes. If no song is playing, this has the same effect as play. Typically
used after loading a new playlist.

option songloop <count>
Loops playback of the next song (either via play or when the next playlist
entry begins) for count iterations. If count is 0, loops perpetually. Default
is 1.

option listloop <count>
Loops playback of current playlist. Default is 1, 0 to loop perpetually.

playlist length
Read length lines after this one containing playlist entries in the form
type|* resource_uri

resetplaylist
Clear all playlist entries

skip offset
Not implemented in current releases

pause
Pause playback. Remember offset in song and current playlist position.

ping
Respond immediately with OK if alive. Used to tell if btplay is stuck.

resume
Resume playback if paused, otherwise no effect

stop
Stop playing current song. Forget current position

quit
Stop playing any songs and exit immediately

flashplayer startup
Informative. Tells btplay that flashplayer has just started up

flashplayer exit
Informative. Tells btplay that flashplayer is exiting

dump <entity>
Debug dump of specified entity. Valid are:
	playlist	Entire playlist

debug [level]
If level is specified, set new debug level. Echoes debug level in response.

  • Revised 30-Aug-2010: removed unimplemented save and load