A-Z Playlist

[meesh]

Hi, I've used your scripts for years & never knew this forum was here! lol
thanks for all the wonderful scripts you have! I am a dj on an online radio, & we do not like the sam2 playlist request layout (that & we cant suss the damn thing) and were wondering if there are any simple a-z scripts for mp3 music, so we can show alphabetically the djs playlists, I've found one & uploaded it to my site, (freeugraphics.co.uk/playlist/index.html) its similar to what we are looking for, but we wanted the A B C D E F etc etc, please can anyone help us? And if you know of a script that allows people to request a song by clicking on it we would be eternally grateful as we have looked for months for one of those!!
Hoping you can help michellexx

[boogyman]

(freeugraphics.co.uk/playlist/index.html)
page doesnt exist.
both with or without the preceeding www.

1) does your site have any structure right now?
2) how are the songs accessed by dj's ?

There could be a script made to be integrated into your current network that will pull the song details from the server/database... then your sorting / request form could be made up accordingly.

without really knowing more about how the network is structured for the dj's it would basically be writing the script from scratch and thus not using any of the existing structure that your radio station uses... that is unless its an online based radio station in which case each "dj" plays songs from his/her own computer which adds another layer of complexity.

[meesh]

Oh poo tut, sorry I forgot the 4 its.. free4ugraphics.co.uk/playlist/index.html, yes each dj plays songs from our own music database, all we need is a page that shows our individual playlists (like winamp) but in a to z format, not just a single list. I have seen some but they wont give me the codes to make our own TUT. The request form we use at the moment is.. netcaferadiolive.co.uk/request.html
And our playlists are winamp generated ones. Hope this helps you so you can help me! thanks for the reply!! michellex

[djr33]

"codes" don't just exist. They are made up of simple functions working together in sequential order to achieve a goal.

In order to interact with your system or accomplish much of anything, we'd need more info, like how the data is stored and how that could be accessed and what language you are using.

[boogyman]

"codes" don't just exist. They are made up of simple functions working together in sequential order to achieve a goal.

In order to interact with your system or accomplish much of anything, we'd need more info, like how the data is stored and how that could be accessed and what language you are using.

she is part of an internet radio system. each DJ is using music off his/her own computer and broadcasting it for others to listen to.

no offense Michelle but I am quite certain that a majority of the music being played was probably downloaded illegally, however we aren't the piracy police.

but like i said in my previous post having the music be on someone's individual computer adds an extra layer of complexity. regardless... there is still a way that this can be accomplished, however you would need to have access to some type of server-side programming language and a database. by doing so you can create a login script where each DJ can login upload the list of their songs, and some information about each of those songs (title, album, duration, label etc...)

from there a script can be wrote to sort the list accordingly and a request form can be integrated into the whole system...


now on that note, it would really just be easier if you combined all of the songs onto one single machine and use that machine as the radio station server, which by all intensive purposes is much more of a radio station then just sharing songs, which brings me full circle back around to licenses and piracy to broadcast the songs.

Now I probably lost you in there Michelle, but really there is no "simple" script since you have to work a complex network between all of the DJ's and thus basically creating an actual radio station.

if that is something you / the other DJ's are thinking about I would suggest hiring a professional to build the template to your specifications.

[meesh]

Hi, sorry I dont think I have explained right, I have used loads of your dhtml codes, where you just put a code in & voila, we dont want a big script thing that takes you hours to do, we were hoping you hopefully had a small script I couldnt find online to generate an a-z playlist from music files on your hard drive. If I am asking for something impossible or something that is going to need our database info etc then I think I havent explained what i mean lol.
Sorry I am a bit thick with scripts etc, but i do a mean spag bol! :D
michellex
P.S its english language we use.

[meesh]

hya boogyman, thanks for your help! & I can assure you we do not do any piracy, we use sam2 broadcaster & all the songs are legite & go through that.
Yes I think you are right, we are going to have to pay someone to do this for us fikkos lol. Sorry to have made a simple thing seem hard, I know what I meant! lol
Again ty for the replies!, have to go now on radio lol. michellexx

[djr33]

The idea is that it will need to be integrated with the system. Using sam2 broadcaster is the key, then, perhaps. I wouldn't really know.

Using Javascript or PHP to sort a list alphabetically isn't hard to do. But you would first need to setup the code to have those items listed in the first place.

[boogyman]

I have used loads of your dhtml codes, where you just put a code in & voila
if only it was that easy this time.

I couldnt find online to generate an a-z playlist from music files on your hard drive.
Javascript doesn't have access to modify file located on your computer inheritly, ...that is a misconception among the non-programming world.

A couple of years ago my professor said it is possible through javascript to access a computer but i didnt ask how and i dont want to know.
Javascript is an interpretted language that the user can see, and thus its VERY UNSECURE.
neither he nor I recommend this because it open a whole slot of exploitations and ports (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_port_%28hardware%29), which would allow a user with malicious intentions alot easier access to your, specific DJ, computer as a result of the user being able to freely see the code.

[meesh]

Thanks for all your help guys :) michellex

[Twey]

A couple of years ago my professor said it is possible through javascript to access a computer but i didnt ask how and i dont want to know.Not pure Javascript. It can be done using ActiveX or Java, and I think newer Netscape-ish browsers have a proprietary way of doing it.
neither he nor I recommend this because it open a whole slot of exploitations and ports (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_port_(hardware))You probably meant ports (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_port_(software)). Even this is wrong, however: the only port that need be opened is the one already being used for the HTTP connection.