Uploading a whole folder

[Rectospander]

Hey alles!

Must say that this was a fantastically great and easy install and there's nothing not working

I would like to upload a whole folder with tunes to my KPlaylist server! Is that possible? I've tried but cannot upload more than 3 tunes at a time. Ideas?

I know that I can change the amount of uploads as it is now but then it would demand a whole lot of browsing to upload a whole album.

The thought got me when editing the php.ini to grant higher amount of uploads (Mb) and not being able to do these at once through Kplaylist. Have I missed something?

Thumbs up!
/rectospander

[lenocinor]

Hey alles!

Must say that this was a fantastically great and easy install and there's nothing not working

I would like to upload a whole folder with tunes to my KPlaylist server! Is that possible? I've tried but cannot upload more than 3 tunes at a time. Ideas?

I know that I can change the amount of uploads as it is now but then it would demand a whole lot of browsing to upload a whole album.

The thought got me when editing the php.ini to grant higher amount of uploads (Mb) and not being able to do these at once through Kplaylist. Have I missed something?

Thumbs up!
/rectospander

No, you have not missed something. There is no easy way to do this as kPlaylist is currently implemented. As I see it, you have two options for mass uploads really:

1. Edit kPlaylist to incorporate a full-fledged uploading system, such as JUpload. Not for the faint of heart; you will probably need some decent coding experience to do this.

2. FTP into your box and upload files that way. If other users need to FTP, set up accounts for them (if you have root access). First one is easy and the second isn't too hard to setup if you have basic UNIX skills but might be tricky otherwise.

Or you can wait for aba to add this functionality, as I believe he said he was working on a real multi-uploader a while back. My memory could be wrong on that though. At any rate, good luck!

[Rectospander]

No, you have not missed something. There is no easy way to do this as kPlaylist is currently implemented. As I see it, you have two options for mass uploads really:

1. Edit kPlaylist to incorporate a full-fledged uploading system, such as JUpload. Not for the faint of heart; you will probably need some decent coding experience to do this.

Just what I suspected,, I'm experiencing a massive lack of that skill.

2. FTP into your box and upload files that way. If other users need to FTP, set up accounts for them (if you have root access). First one is easy and the second isn't too hard to setup if you have basic UNIX skills but might be tricky otherwise.

That's easy but don't want to do it because the users lack of FTP experience,, and of course security reasons.

Or you can wait for aba to add this functionality, as I believe he said he was working on a real multi-uploader a while back. My memory could be wrong on that though. At any rate, good luck!

It seems like I just have to sit down and wait then. I'll be waiting for changes! Thanx & Cheers allbodies!

[lenocinor]

No, you have not missed something. There is no easy way to do this as kPlaylist is currently implemented. As I see it, you have two options for mass uploads really:

1. Edit kPlaylist to incorporate a full-fledged uploading system, such as JUpload. Not for the faint of heart; you will probably need some decent coding experience to do this.

Just what I suspected,, I'm experiencing a massive lack of that skill.

2. FTP into your box and upload files that way. If other users need to FTP, set up accounts for them (if you have root access). First one is easy and the second isn't too hard to setup if you have basic UNIX skills but might be tricky otherwise.

That's easy but don't want to do it because the users lack of FTP experience,, and of course security reasons.

Or you can wait for aba to add this functionality, as I believe he said he was working on a real multi-uploader a while back. My memory could be wrong on that though. At any rate, good luck!

It seems like I just have to sit down and wait then. I'll be waiting for changes! Thanx & Cheers allbodies!

As far as #2 goes you can chroot jail the users in a home directory for each of them. That way they can't get out and mess with other people's stuff, just their own.

FTP accounts in my experience are pretty easy even for novices once you get past a small amount of pain on setup. It's a bit of a pain on your part too as you will have to set up an account manually for each person but it's not that bad. This is in fact the way I ended up solving this problem, actually, and even the non-tech-savvy types seemed to do well as long as I held their hands setting up Filezilla. Not saying it'll definitely work for you but it's worth considering.

[Rectospander]

No, you have not missed something. There is no easy way to do this as kPlaylist is currently implemented. As I see it, you have two options for mass uploads really:

1. Edit kPlaylist to incorporate a full-fledged uploading system, such as JUpload. Not for the faint of heart; you will probably need some decent coding experience to do this.

Just what I suspected,, I'm experiencing a massive lack of that skill.

2. FTP into your box and upload files that way. If other users need to FTP, set up accounts for them (if you have root access). First one is easy and the second isn't too hard to setup if you have basic UNIX skills but might be tricky otherwise.

That's easy but don't want to do it because the users lack of FTP experience,, and of course security reasons.

Or you can wait for aba to add this functionality, as I believe he said he was working on a real multi-uploader a while back. My memory could be wrong on that though. At any rate, good luck!

It seems like I just have to sit down and wait then. I'll be waiting for changes! Thanx & Cheers allbodies!

As far as #2 goes you can chroot jail the users in a home directory for each of them. That way they can't get out and mess with other people's stuff, just their own.

FTP accounts in my experience are pretty easy even for novices once you get past a small amount of pain on setup. It's a bit of a pain on your part too as you will have to set up an account manually for each person but it's not that bad. This is in fact the way I ended up solving this problem, actually, and even the non-tech-savvy types seemed to do well as long as I held their hands setting up Filezilla. Not saying it'll definitely work for you but it's worth considering.

Yep, I'm chrooting allready and don't allow FTP connections to my server, it's not secure enough, but that is a way to do it if you want. You have a point there about user accounts ,, I could just symlink their homedir to a folder in the kplaylist uploads folder (or vice versa) then I don't have to run around all existing homedirs for files.. gotta think this over Thanx

[vmg]

would be cool to be able to upload archive (zip or rar) and have the server extract it to upload folder or "upload folder"/"user name"

[Rectospander]

would be cool to be able to upload archive (zip or rar) and have the server extract it to upload folder or "upload folder"/"user name"

It must be possible. I think of a cron job (linux) that checks folders, let's say once a day, and if there is files it unpacks those and moves them if needed and then deletes the compressed files just for not unpacking them again.

I'm not good at this but shurely there's folks with this knowledge.

Laters