node-dj

node-dj is a parametrizable mp3 jukebox that automatically plays mp3s, choosing music based on pre-defined time slot - genre folder combinations.

"You have bought a fiddle. But have you also bought the man who can play the fiddle?"

Teacher to his pupil, ca. 1937

Required parameters

• [command line parameter #0] folder_separator: The symbol separating folders, e.g. \\ for windows systems or / for mac/unix systems
• [command line parameter #1] library_path: The folder where the mp3 files are to be found.
• [file in library path] times.json (see template in data folder) -> time_slots: Object representing a time slot in which to define which genres are applicable for the respective time

Expected folder structure

• Genre folder: library/<genre>
• Songs without album: library/<genre>/<filename>.mp3
• Songs within album: library/<genre>/<albumname>/<filename>.mp3

Lifecycle

• Pre-run actions like readState
• index.js->run() calls dj.js->play()
• dj.js->play() sets currentSong and currentAlbum, calls player.playSong() with dj.switchToNextSong() as callback what to do when done playing
• player.js->playSong() closes the old speaker (if applicable), instantiates a new speaker and pipes data to it. when the new speaker is done playing, the callback dj.switchToNextSong() is carried out
• dj.switchToNextSong() writes the last song into the history and calls playSong() (see above)

Setup

Windows

For developing and running on windows, the following command must first be run as administrator:

Press windows key -> enter "Powershell" -> right click and choose "Run as administrator" -> enter command npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Linux (ubuntu)

The first step would be to carry out install-ubuntu.sh, which does the following:

• Installing the ssh server
• Making sure that the ssh daemon is run on boot with the following command: sudo systemctl enable sshd.service.
• Installing dependencies
• Building node-dj and node-dj-controller
• Generating the run-script run.sh
• Generating the string to copy into crontab and opening crontab If necessary, set the correct time zone, issue the following command: sudo timedatectl set-timezone "Europe/Istanbul" If you are running node-dj on a raspberry pi, don't forget to set the audio output with sudo raspi-config

Integration tests

Run integration_tests.sh to run a local instance and the server, wait until it's up and then run the integration tests.