Local Playdar Server Required?

[JAJones]

Good evening. If I want to integrate Playdar with my blog to stream
song clips would each user be required to download a local Playdar
server and ensure that this service is running on their machine in
order to stream the clip? Or is this something I can install and
manage from the server side?

Thanks!
Jeff

[Steven Gravell]

You've got it right yes. Each user has to have a playdar server installed.  Your site should explicitly trap the cause when playdar is not detected (available via the js api) and should provide some sort of knowledge or link to where to get playdar.

This raises an interesting point about trying to establish a global easy and approachable method for playdar clients that do not detect playdar to raise up similar help with regards to new users.  This would require a different topic though maybe.  I think though for now it is entirely up to you and other client developers to provide a link to playdar.org and do your best at making this process as elegant and informative as possible.

The simplest example of this is what you see on current clients such as playlick/playgrub/spiffdar where a link is provided on the page where it says "playdar was not detected" or similar text. Until playdar is a lot more user friendly in general I'm sure this is enough.

hope this helps

/steve
http://mokele.co.uk/

2009/12/8 JAJones <rai...@gmail.com>

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[Steven Gravell]

plus, after reading your message again, I'd just like to make sure you understand how playdar works with regards to playing song "clips". If they are clips that you wish to host, then playdar is maybe not what you were thinking it was (unless you want to write a resolver for it!). Your visitors would need to have access to the clips via their own playdar install/resolvers to be able to play the songs your website has meta-data for.

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/steve
http://mokele.co.uk/

2009/12/8 Steven Gravell <st...@mokele.co.uk>

[David Singleton]

In due time a nice getplaydar.net (in the style of getfirefox.net)
would be rather nice.

There's not really a separate user (non-developer) facing explanation
of playdar and how to install it.

2009/12/8 Steven Gravell <st...@mokele.co.uk>:

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[Steven Gravell]

<3 getplaydar.net though now it's been written on a public mailing list I guess someone should snap that up, and I don't want to right now, credit card issues.

/steve
http://mokele.co.uk/

2009/12/8 David Singleton <da...@dsingleton.co.uk>

[Andreas]

Hi Steven,

On 8 Dez., 15:26, Steven Gravell <st...@mokele.co.uk> wrote:
> You've got it right yes. Each user has to have a playdar server installed.

Really?

Playlick.com streams tracks to me even when my local playdar server is
down.

So i would assume that Playlick.com is running a playdar server on
their own with additional resolvers plugged into it.

Am i wrong or right here?

If i am right then the OP could run his own playdar server with
appropriate resolvers on his blog too, and the blog readers should be
able to stream without the need of a local playdar server.

Hopefully i am not complete wrong here. Who can give us some
clarifications?

Cheers,
Andreas

[James Wheare]

Playlick.com has a JavaScript resolver that looks up tracks on AOL
music sources only. It doesn't do any local library resolving at all.
It runs totally independent of Playdar.

Any website can add a lite resolver of their own that looks up tracks
against their own source. But that's not Playdar.

[JAJones]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Much appreciated.

On Dec 8, 5:39 pm, James Wheare <ja...@wheare.org> wrote:
> Playlick.com has a JavaScript resolver that looks up tracks on AOL  
> music sources only. It doesn't do any local library resolving at all.  
> It runs totally independent of Playdar.
>
> Any website can add a lite resolver of their own that looks up tracks  
> against their own source. But that's not Playdar.
>

[Steven Gravell]

Ah, I didn't know this. holyroarrecords.com works similar to this,
resolving against itself at holyroarrecords.com/api/ instead of
localhost so doesn't require the visitor to have playdar