VLC playlist radio

From WiKim

1 Introduction
2 The idea
3 Analysis
- 3.1 VLC DashBoard
- 3.2 DR playlists

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Introduction

Is it possible to make a VLC playlist radio?

Inspired by the simple VLC Dashboard Widget and the DR Netradio m3u playlist.

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The idea

Collect a list of links to net radio and TV stations, make them selectable from a webfront end og a widget.

Features of the player:

Simple UI: Much like iTunes Radios og last.fm player. Display station name and currently played artist (requires some programming). Think wired iPod shuffle, with links to online resources.

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Analysis

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VLC DashBoard

The VLC DashBoard widget features a simple UI, and it uses JavaScript code to activate the VLC player through this AppleScript code:

// buttonPress()
//
// when a button is pressed, this gets called from mouseDown
// it sends a straight unix command with applescript to VLC
function buttonPress(VLC_Event) {
	var obj = widget.system("/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application \"VLC\"' -e \""+VLC_Event+"\" -e 'end tell' ", null);
}

The buttonPress code is triggered from the JavaScript code, when the mouse is clicked:

// mouseDown()
//
// during a button press this will change the image to look like it is being pressed
// then call buttonPress
function mouseDown(event, id) {
	event.target.src = "Images/"+id+"_blue.png";
	buttonPress(id);
}

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