erythros and Burhan, Thanks for the reply.
Basically I started putting my music into a program , and the program I did it on didn't like the amount of tracks (kept crashing), and didn't give me as many options as I would like. I'm not worried about a fancy interface and graphical displays of the music. What I could do is make a folder inside a folder with the artist name and the CD, and then the MP3 files inside with the name (and possibly mix) as part of the name. But what if the CD has music from different artists? What if the program does not like a high number of files? What if the file name gets to be more than 255 characters? What if I want to do something bit more advanced with a catelouged set of data. The last sentence relates to a project I did at Uni, to do with automatic mixing between tracks. I realise the code I did then is copyright, but I have a few ideas I want to try out. I sometimes do a bit of DJing at a local bar/club, but for the first couple of hours we just play a couple of mix CD's, before I get up and DJ. What I was thinking was letting the computer DJ itself, and letting people using a simple interface select some songs. But I would want to limit the type of songs, because some songs don't work at certain times of the night. Just would be nice to have it all using MySQL, so people can see pics of the artists etc. There are some quiet nights where basically either mix cd's or the radio is used all night. A database is there to hold your data, and basically display it in a format when asked, that you asked for. (Ok not a dictionary definition). Basically a file system is a simple database, but just to hold files. I know the load on the server would be crazy, but I'm not worried about that. All I plan to do at the moment is to output to a tempoary file, and then feed it into a program such as WinAmp to play the file. I don't want to do any Streaming- well perhaps some screaming! Ideally there would be a software product out there to do all this, but I don't think so, not with some of the ideas I have which I haven't even listed!!! So is there ANY way from PHP to read a CD, rip the tracks and place them in BLOB fields in MySQL? Or do I have to write something in C++ or Java? Just would be nice if there was something in PHP. Thanks, Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
