Alternate music dir for upnp clients

[anonymous]

My first time submitting a patch, so take it easy on me....

Here was my problem: I store my music in a lossless format (flac), but may inexpensive UPNP clients understand MP3 only. Sure, I could convert my whole collection to MP3 (yeah right).

So, I ended up using MP3FS to "expose" my music collection as mp3s in a seperate directory on my server without taking up extra disk space.

Next, I created a patch for the UPNP server in myth to be able to select which format to send based on the IP address of the UPNP client. So, to use this functionality:

1. Create your alternate music directory (MP3FS- ​http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/)
   

2. Apply my patch to mythtv
   

3. Add the following settings to the settings database:
   

1. UpnpAltMusicHosts?= a comma seperated list of the UPNP client IPs that need MP3 format: '192.168.1.132,192.168.149'
2. UpnpAltMusicLocation?= the directory where MP3FS is set to: '/var/local/media/musicmp3_256'
3. UpnpNormalMusicExtension?= the "regular" file extension of you music files: 'flac'

[dbadia@…]

patch

[robertm]

Think this probably isn't the right approach. Let's get MythMusic to using storage groups and teach our uPnP server to handle SGs first.