I have an application, which streams an MP3 using Node.JS. Currently this is done through the following post route...
app.post('/item/listen',routes.streamFile)
...
exports.streamFile = function(req, res){
console.log("The name is "+ req.param('name'))
playlistProvider.streamFile(res, req.param('name'))
}
...
PlaylistProvider.prototype.streamFile = function(res, filename){
res.contentType("audio/mpeg3");
var readstream = gfs.createReadStream(filename, {
"content_type": "audio/mpeg3",
"metadata":{
"author": "Jackie"
},
"chunk_size": 1024*4 });
console.log("!")
readstream.pipe(res);
}
Is there anyone that can help me read this on the client side? I would like to use either JPlayer or HTML5, but am open to other options.
So the real problem here was, we are "requesting a file" so this would be better as a GET request. In order to accomplish this, I used the express "RESTful" syntax '/item/listen/:name'. This then allows you to use the JPlayer the way specified in the links provided by the previous poster.
I'm assuming you didn't bother visiting their site because had you done so, you would have seen several examples of how to achieve this using HTML5/JPlayer. The following is a bare-bones example provided by their online developer's documentation:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.jplayer.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#jquery_jplayer_1").jPlayer({
ready: function() {
$(this).jPlayer("setMedia", {
mp3: "http://www.jplayer.org/audio/mp3/Miaow-snip-Stirring-of-a-fool.mp3"
}).jPlayer("play");
var click = document.ontouchstart === undefined ? 'click' : 'touchstart';
var kickoff = function () {
$("#jquery_jplayer_1").jPlayer("play");
document.documentElement.removeEventListener(click, kickoff, true);
};
document.documentElement.addEventListener(click, kickoff, true);
},
loop: true,
swfPath: "/js"
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jquery_jplayer_1"></div>
</body>
</html>