User friendly stream URL's

[aba]

From build 443 kP supports 'free form' urls such as:

http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888/c_99 ... myfile.mp3

replacing the original form:

http://kpsite/index.php?sid=5878&c=99-1111818111

This new form improves the functionality in a few audio players, especially WMP.

Enabling this feature consists of the following (recipe for Apache only)

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    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/music/.*
    RewriteRule ^(.+)          /index.php?path=$1


(Put this in a virtualhost or directory context.)

And enable in the script:

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$cfg['filepathurl'] = true;



If the name 'music' is occupied for your setup, change it in both the apache setting and this parameter inside kP: $cfg['filepathurlprepend']

It's recommend to put the above apache settings in a .htaccess file and this file should (must) reside in the same directory as the kPlaylist script.

Åge

[StephanD]

Hi,

i cant make it work, i have test both settings

$cfg['filepathurl'] = true;
and
$cfg['filepathurl'] = false;


this is what i get:





any ideas?


Version 1.7.438 works fine and i use kpconfig.php also i did not change anything inside the script 1.7.445


my system:
Windows NT 5.1 build 2600 (incl. all service packs and patches)
MySQL 3.23.49
Apache 2.0.59 (Win32)
PHP 4.4.3

Thanks

[aba]

Hi,

i cant make it work, i have test both settings

$cfg['filepathurl'] = true;
and
$cfg['filepathurl'] = false;

Add ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); in the top of the script (after <?php) and refresh the page. It should display the reason for the error.

Åge

[StephanD]

Thank you, here is the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_strlen() in E:\htdocs\kplaylist.1.7.445.php on line 8265

[aba]

Thank you, here is the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_strlen() in E:\htdocs\kplaylist.1.7.445.php on line 8265

Ahh, found the bug, get 446 and try again please.

[StephanD]

great, works fine now, thx

[StephanD]

Is anyone else having issues playing only one song at a time with this enabled?

nope, works fine

download multiple files by using winrar wont really work, it tells me the archive has been deleted

[aba]

Is anyone else having issues playing only one song at a time with this enabled?

What audio player are you using? (And are you sure the the apache rewrite is working?)

[StephanD]

my winrar problem...

V1.7.447 Line 10941

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<input type="hidden" name="file" value="<?php echo kp_basename($f); ?>"/>

should be?

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<input type="hidden" name="file" value="<?php echo basename($f); ?>"/>

on this way it works fine

[aba]

I may be way off but it seems there is a problem with $script when a playlist is generated with only one file. It looks like the $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; variable may not be behaving as expected.

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      $phpenv['streamlocation'] = $host.$script;

Here are both M3Us, notice how the URL in the M3U with one file is broken?

Broken:

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:234,Incubus - Privilege - Make Yourself
http://mydomain.com/kplaylist/music/sid_179233/c_1-916087986/stag_5c585c4626f0b743/music/streamsid_179233/c_1-916087986/stag_67585c4626f0b743/01-incubus-privilege-eos.mp3

Somehow it duplicates two requests, please try this instead:

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<Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/kplaylist/">
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/music/.*
    RewriteRule ^(.+)          /index.php?path=$1
</Directory>


Åge

[aba]

my winrar problem...

V1.7.447 Line 10941

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<input type="hidden" name="file" value="<?php echo kp_basename($f); ?>"/>

Could you give me an example of what $f is set to? I am not able to reproduce any errors.

Edit: I've found the bug. Will release a new build soon.

[Eukatae]

From build 443 kP supports 'free form' urls such as:

http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888/c_99 ... myfile.mp3

replacing the original form:

http://kpsite/index.php?sid=5878&c=99-1111818111


Åge

I could use a little help understanding how this is supposed to work. Per your example, with my current setup, "http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888/c_99-1111818111/myfile.mp3" is not exactly "friendly".

If I attempt to use a similar URL my setup ignores everything after streamsid_x (it plays the song that corresponds with the streamsid), this makes perfect sense to me. What I don't understand is how I get to a place where I can intutively write a URL, like:

http://mysite.com/music/a band/an album by a band/ a song by a band.mp3

[aba]

From build 443 kP supports 'free form' urls such as:

http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888/c_99 ... myfile.mp3

replacing the original form:

http://kpsite/index.php?sid=5878&c=99-1111818111


Åge

I could use a little help understanding how this is supposed to work. Per your example, with my current setup, "http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888/c_99-1111818111/myfile.mp3" is not exactly "friendly".

If I attempt to use a similar URL my setup ignores everything after streamsid_x (it plays the song that corresponds with the streamsid), this makes perfect sense to me. What I don't understand is how I get to a place where I can intutively write a URL, like:

http://mysite.com/music/a band/an album by a band/ a song by a band.mp3

Because you wold not have any security with that URL.

[Eukatae]

SNIP!

Because you wold not have any security with that URL.

URL security isn't my concern; even so its not like 'http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888' is inscrutable. If I wanted to harvest someones MP3 collection it would be much easier to to do it with streamsid #s than guessing artist, album, and song names. I could simply increment the streamsid_#.

Perhaps a URL like http://mysite.com/music/streamsid_21 shouldn't work, but it does, at least the way I have mine set up from following the above directions.

[aba]

URL security isn't my concern; even so its not like 'http://kpsite/music/streamsid_5888' is inscrutable. If I wanted to harvest someones MP3 collection it would be much easier to to do it with streamsid #s than guessing artist, album, and song names. I could simply increment the streamsid_#.

Perhaps a URL like http://mysite.com/music/streamsid_21 shouldn't work, but it does, at least the way I have mine set up from following the above directions.

Well, obviously, you can turn off all security on a per site basis (as you did.) Realizing that, it is
of course possible to support such a streaming location as you mentioned. But, the main idea
behind the feature that came out, was to keep security intact while the audio clients would see
that the URL actually "felt" and looked like a direct file url.