Sorad Features And Setup

Feature List

Instant Stream creation

Start a stream using a filter to generate a playlist. **(mpd partition support needed)**

spaces in filters need to be replaced with _ (underscore)

e.g. https://so.rad/a/giant_sand

• /a/ => Artist
• /b/ => Album (not randomized)
• /g/ => Genre
• /p/ => Stored Playlist

New Room Creation

Create a new room by going to a non existing room **(mpd partition support needed)**

e.g. https://so.rad/MySuperCoolRoom

Multiple MPD instances (not tested since partitioning)

If you don't have partitions in your MPD, you can just setup multiple MPD instances.

16 rooms/MPD Maximum

It's an arbitrarily chosen number by the people at MPD. Go change their source if you need more.

Unified youtube&searchfield

One field to rule'm all! Search and direct YouTube links go into the same field.

Youtube search integrated

* 42 results

* video only (no live events)

Youtube-dl passes beets

All user downloaded music passes beets for replayGain tagging and metadata.

Playlist Editor

Remove songs from playlists

Edit Artist/Title

Edit the artist and title of songs that were downloaded from YouTube

Adjust Room Settings

• Password to settings
• Set default Playlist
• Shuffle Playlist
• Expand Playlist with added songs
• Only add songs once to playlists
• Enable YouTube
• Set maximum duration of added youtube Title

Setup

Quick overview, will expand later.

• clone the repo
• get the dependecies - youtube-dl, beets, 3th party libs
• get your own youtube api key!
• go build
• start mpd (make sure yout have partition support)
• start SoRad
• surf to localhost:8080 (I think - dunno anymore, am using reverse proxy, will lookup later)
• check it
• hack it
• share it