With the added support for RSS feeds, it only makes sense to take advantage of this feature. The best way, in my opinion, is to make your music library on your computer available to your PSP. This can be accomplished in a short amount of time.
This is just one way to do it. There are other servers that you use. I've tried Apache and didn't like it very much. I've also been told to use Windows IIS, but I am using Windows XP Home Edition, so that option isn't available to me.
This is a walkthrough of one way to make your music library available to your PSP, wirelessly. It is in baby steps, so it makes it a bit easier for people who have had trouble with this kind of thing.
Once you download the PSP RSS Feeder, extract the contents to the folder with all of your music. The feeder will allow you to select which song to listen to. For organization purposes, I used MP3Organizer to put my music into folders based on "Artist". You don't have to do this, but I find it to be much easier to navigate and find what I want.
That is all you need to do with the PSP RSS Feeder.
Installing PHP5
After you download PHP5, run the installer. Once installation has complete, move onto setting up the server. Remember the install directory that you use because you'll need it later. By default, it is C:PHP.
Installing and Configuring The Web Server
Download the free version of Abyss (X1). During the installation of the server, you'll be promted to make a username and password for access to the console. Use something that you can easily remember. Go to the configuration page in your web browser (localhost:9999 by default).
Click the "Configure" button next to "Default Host On Port 80" in the hosts table. Then select "General" and change the Documents Path to the folder with your music in it. Click OK.
Then click on "Scripting Parameters". Make sure that "Enable Script Execution" is checked. On the "Interpreters" table, click "Add". For the "Interpreter" field, click "Browse" and find the file "php-cgi.exe". It is in the folder that you installed PHP5 ("C:PHPphp-cgi.exe", by default). Change the "Type" drop down menu to "PHP Style". Make sure that "Use the associated extensions to automatically update the Script Paths" is checked. At the "Associated Extensions" table, add "php" to the list (again, leaving out the quotes).
On the same page is a table called "Custom Environmental Variables". Click Add and enter these values:
If you didn't put your MP3s into folders, your page will look different, but it's not a big deal.
Using It With Your PSP
If you are in the same network as the computer that is running the server, all you need to do to access your RSS Feed is enter your local IP address into the PSP Web Browser. If you don't know your local IP address, do this:
Go to "Start > Run > CMD > ipconfig" and hit enter. It will say IP Address and then some numbers. In my case, it's 192.168.x.xx. It depends on what kind of router/access point you are using.
If you want to access your music library from outside of the network (over the internet), then you need to either use your IP that is provided by your ISP, or use a DNS service, such as no-ip.org, to bind a domain (yourdomain.no-ip.org) to your IP address. They have several subdomains to choose from, and the service is free.
Thanx a lot for testing and support northwst..
the tut can stay for my part as long as the code part and my files are taken out...
but kinda useless since this guide is now ok....
anyway, sorry for my a bit offensive reaction on that...
Anyway I'm testing the flashversion on 2.7, it works beyond my hopes but still needs some work, wish I had more time this week...
mattman, to my understanding, DCLXVI has resovled the issue with abyss, just download the new update (1.0p)
DCLXVI, all of your file were deleted off my tut. (on my computer), i have emailed yousendit.com to have them remove the link to my tut off their servers due to a potencial copyright breach. only thing i have is my .doc. Again, Sorry for the inconveniences, no harm was ment, and no offensive reaction taken what so ever. lets just be cool, and try to help each other out
all i needed to do was put my music in the artists folder. in the php RSS folder that way i can select the stream option and it shows the php schreen.
tell me if this helped eny.
ok but what if i want other people that are not useing my roughter to be able to use it? say i went to another roughter at some where like Ihop.(thay do have a wireless network without secirity) how do i set it up so i can acess the music from my computer?
DracoEX That is explained in the Tutorial towards the bottom.... you have to make sure your ip address can be seen by other people... the easiest way to do this is sign up for a free Domain Name Service such as NO-IP.org. This will allow you to access your Feed from anywhere you can get internet.
Also you might want to check if your ISP is blocking port 80, is so you need to do a Port Redirect with no-ip.org. NO-IP.org has all the tools you will need to do this successfully. Let us know how it goes...there are other things to do that I have not mentioned, but through some reading and understanding you will be successfull. Goodluck
Thanks for the *EXCELLENT* code - installed fine on my CentOS server with Apache and PHP 4.4.2. I had been playing with some much simpler code from elsewhere and this blows its socks off! Here's one question and one observation:
1) Can you stream mp4 video yet - I have setup some code to produce an RSS Feed for .mp4 video but the PSP just changes the link to 'corrupted data'. I think on the code's Web site it says something about hoping this will work with future firmware updates.
2) If the URLs on the RSS feed pages use '%20' instead of spaces then the pages can be subscribed in Firefox and work fine without affecting PSP playback - any chance of changing the code to do this - I had a quick go but 'got lost'!!
No video yet but I believe DCLVXI has written the code to work easily with video when its supported...Talk to him about this. I think he is streering towards using flash in the future...when we can use the memory cards as a cache.
As far as using %20 string replacement you can change it yourself....also the new Internet Explorer v7 can use this Feeder with no problems...well there are some issues with renaming because it uses the Title and not the file name...I think easily fixed if an issue... IE7 is still in Beta so there are some unsupported features just yet...
on another note... ALL the Code "Fixes" are not needed any longer DCLVXI has corrected the Issues with the code not working... download the latest version Currently 1.0p
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