Simple Music Player Module

yawns

Are you talking about this one? https://github.com/masters1222/mm-hide-all

open a terminal:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/masters1222/mm-hide-all.git

1m2

@yawns
Dude, thanks a Mill!

So for this music one it would be
cd to my MagicMirror/modules directory and execute the below as well.
git clone https://github.com/masters1222/mm-music-player

Wow, doesn’t get easier than that! LOL
Thanks for the quick response man!

*** Did an EDIT correction on the which directory to CD to since @cowboysdude was nice enough to point that out, given that I didn’t pay attention. I didn’t want anyone else to find this later and have the same mistake happen to them because of me. LOL

cowboysdude

@1m2 Don’t forget… it’s not the MagicMirror dir it’s the /MagicMirror/modules dir before you do a git clone or you’ll be putting it directly in the MM folder instead of the modules folder ;)

1m2

@cowboysdude
Funk it… I was already troubleshooting cause I had already did it! LOL!!!
Now I have to look up how to remove them, I haven’t done linux in 10 years.
That’s what happens when you get too excited and don’t pay attention. DOH.
Thanks!

cowboysdude

@1m2 said in Simple Music Player Module:

@cowboysdude
Funk it… I was already troubleshooting cause I had already did it! LOL!!!
Now I have to look up how to remove them, I haven’t done linux in 10 years.
Thanks!

Just open up a folder and delete it :)

OR from terminal window:

sudo rm -rf folderName

;)

theusu5k

i really like this module,it can’t be done a web version,to control the music player from a web page?

cowboysdude

@theusu5k That gets a lot more difficult…

You have to find an api that allows it…

broberg

@cowboysdude well, he should be able to send http get to the syslog module and then let the syslog send a notification to the player module.

But, well, it’s a long way around 😀

1m2

@theusu5k Yeah, Google Music would be a bomb widget on here.

lucallmon

Is there a way to link the music directory to a thumb drive instead of having it in the modules folder on the SD card?

broberg

@lucallmon either you change the directory in the players .js file or you link the music folder to the thumbdrive

dbaler

If you have a nas / networked storage and want to use music files from there, how would you do that?

broberg

@dbaler My higly noobish answer is Samba, and mount a network folder.

dbaler

@broberg Just change the directory in which JS file?

broberg

@dbaler If you are not using the default Music folder you could actually mount your network folder directly in that folder. No need to alter anything in the js files

Here is a easy to follow tutorial on how you mount a smb share in linux :
https://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-share-files-between-windows-and-linux/

Preve

@cowboysdude Is that “show list” already available?

aro28

Hi Eof,
Do you know why mm-music-player module is not loading even i added below code to config file? I downloaded and copied mm-music-player folder to MM’s Modules folder. Do i need to do something else?

{
module: ‘mm-music-player’,
position: ‘bottom_left’,
config: {
startingVolume: 20,
fadeDuriation: 2000
}
}

Thank you!

DrCastor

Hi aro28,

I had the same problem, so I decided to take a look at why this module couldn’t be loaded.

The issues is in the Node_Helper.js given, which is mistaken. The structure is wrong. It looks like a quick adaptation of a ctrl+C/ctrl+V made from index.js, found in the node_helper folder (MM core folders).

I’m actually tweeking it a bit. I’ll give you news when i get it worked nicely.
(In fact, it seems i can now load it, but since my speaker are broke, i cant be sure it reads files… I’ll change them tomorrow)

aro28

@DrCastor
Great! Thank you for reply. I hope you will succeed.

DrCastor

Ok, found bad speakers, but at least, they allow me to test it. It works :). I’m a real noob, so some useless things may still be there. But at least, it will do the trick

Go to the node_helper.js file, and change it this way:

var Class = require("../../js/class.js");
var express = require("express");
var path = require("path");


module.exports = NodeHelper.create({

	init: function() {
		console.log("Initializing mm-music-player module helper ...");
	},

	start: function() {
		this.expressApp.get('/music', function (req, res) {
			var fs = require('fs');
			var path = require('path');

			var files = [];

			fs.readdir('modules/mm-music-player/music', (err, data) => {
				for(i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
					if(path.extname(data[i]) == ".mp3"){
						files.push(data[i]);
					}
				}
				
				res.send(files);
			});
		});
	},



	/* setExpressApp(app)
	 * Sets the express app object for this module.
	 * This allows you to host files from the created webserver.
	 *
	 * argument app Express app - The Express app object.
	 */
	setExpressApp: function(app) {
		this.expressApp = app;

		var publicPath = this.path + "/public";
		app.use("/" + this.name, express.static(publicPath));
	},

});

If luck is by your side, it will work ;)