2011-03-22, 23:17
Hi all,
I have a request to all want to help me to build a Jukebox app for XBMC.
The idea is to have an application which runs on a second computer to control xbmc via network (JSON API?).
This application should be touch screen friendly with big buttons.
I always have the problem that on a party not everybody could easily choose music without knowing the basics of the xbmc interface and mainly after a couple of beers its very hard too hehehehe.
So my idea is to have an application which does the old good jukebox thing, just choose a music or video file and put it in a row which will be played simply.
So less functions is much more here!!!!
I would install for this a computer running windows with a touch screen 1024x768 in the party room and not there at the dj, so everybody could simply use it.
Here is a picture of the interface I think about for the better understanding of this simple app.
I will try to explain the interface a bit:
- pull down menu: there it should be possible to select all
sources of music and video which are made in xbmc (file mode, not database mode).
the files of the folder should appear in the corresponding list
- green arrow button, when marked a file, the green button will insert it in the playlist
- red arrow button, delete a marked file in the playlist
- blue up/down arrow buttons, shift files in the playlist up and down
- save, load button, saves and loads playlist
- xbmc connected info on the upper left
- play control items of xbmc
Hopefully this is interesting for someone? Because my problem is that I am not trained in windows or html programming or whatever. I have just a few experiences with programming microcontrollers thats all.
So my question is if someone could help with some ideas how to achieve this, this means i.e. on which programming platform this could be possible also for noobs. I read a bit about the Json api, so this must be easliy
possible with it I think, but I have no idea how to start there. Maybe someone could give me some infos or examples?
Maybe someone also would like to programm this? Than I would try to help as much I can.
Thanks for reading!
I have a request to all want to help me to build a Jukebox app for XBMC.
The idea is to have an application which runs on a second computer to control xbmc via network (JSON API?).
This application should be touch screen friendly with big buttons.
I always have the problem that on a party not everybody could easily choose music without knowing the basics of the xbmc interface and mainly after a couple of beers its very hard too hehehehe.
So my idea is to have an application which does the old good jukebox thing, just choose a music or video file and put it in a row which will be played simply.
So less functions is much more here!!!!
I would install for this a computer running windows with a touch screen 1024x768 in the party room and not there at the dj, so everybody could simply use it.
Here is a picture of the interface I think about for the better understanding of this simple app.
I will try to explain the interface a bit:
- pull down menu: there it should be possible to select all
sources of music and video which are made in xbmc (file mode, not database mode).
the files of the folder should appear in the corresponding list
- green arrow button, when marked a file, the green button will insert it in the playlist
- red arrow button, delete a marked file in the playlist
- blue up/down arrow buttons, shift files in the playlist up and down
- save, load button, saves and loads playlist
- xbmc connected info on the upper left
- play control items of xbmc
Hopefully this is interesting for someone? Because my problem is that I am not trained in windows or html programming or whatever. I have just a few experiences with programming microcontrollers thats all.
So my question is if someone could help with some ideas how to achieve this, this means i.e. on which programming platform this could be possible also for noobs. I read a bit about the Json api, so this must be easliy
possible with it I think, but I have no idea how to start there. Maybe someone could give me some infos or examples?
Maybe someone also would like to programm this? Than I would try to help as much I can.
Thanks for reading!