Kind of, except it doesn't need UPnD or DLNA, just a new command
download file. I had sent a sample patch that provided this command
a long time ago. My implementation was purposefully naive, so that it
could be used to download any file from the `music' subdirectories (and
`playlist', tho this part is not needed any more now that we have
listplaylistinfo), which I abused in my MPC.el client to also download
files like dir/cover.jpg.
I have two problems with that concept:
- big danger of security problems, of course.
Easy to solve: only allow downloads of song-files. Tho, allowing
reading any file under the `music' directory would be perfectly safe for
my setup, and I expect it would also be perfectly safe for
most people's. Of course you'd want to be careful with ...
- the MPD protocol is UTF-8/line based.
No problem here: just encode the data somehow to make it fit, or use
a separate connection (more problematic but more efficient), or ...
The world of possible solutions is wide open.
But maybe we can make this part of the HTTP server (move the httpd code
into MPD core, and let the httpd output plugin mount itself as
a special case)?
As long as I can download while MPD is playing some other song, that'd
be probably be OK.
I understand that album cover management is an interesting feature
request for MPD. I have been thinking about adding some sort of
binary stickers for images, lyrics, ...
Yes, my sample implementation covered a whole bunch of different
features, by providing dirty low-level access. But there's no need to
do it this way (it was just easier for me to implement and saved several
problems at once). One aspect is just download a song from MPD so
I can stuff it into my portable Ogg player, this may need/want to worry
about re-encoding the song in a different format (e.g. I keep my music
in Flac but like to reencode it into Ogg-96Kb/s before stuffing it into
my Ogg player), but that can left to the client for now.
Stefan
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