What is WebMonkey
WebMonkey is a pre-build website that will put your music collection online for others to see. It allows to browse your collection, listen to songs, download songs and view some statistics. You will need a webserver where you can host ASP pages and a MSAccess DB.
It is written in ASP and uses XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Change log from 21 Sep 2006: Do to the large amount of changes to the code it's possible that this version contains bugs. If you want to test first you should install it seperately and test before updating from a previous version.
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Please read readme file for more details...
Please read the readme file for full details and instructions on how to install.
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I hope you all like it and please leave comments, bug reports and requests.
Last edited by Lowlander on Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I installed and configured webmonkey and it works great with only two minor problems.
1: If you click on the play button it will open a explorer window then load the file into the player but the explorer nevers closes resulting in multiple windows left open.
2: After adding files to the playlist (lower left window) then clicking on the play button, the scroll will jump (so I know it's doing something), the songs won't play, and then the play, pause, etc bottons are overlaid with some other icons (MMlink, print, etc).
First of all which browser and player are you using? Does the browser have the player plugin installed?
If you can, please post a link (login if needed) by PM so I can see with my own eyes. Also include a copy of settings.asp.
I haven't actively developed this part of WebMonkey for a while. It's also not by expertise and many players/browsers make it a pain in the ass to get to work. That doesn't mean that I won't try to solve this issue with you.
I installed IIS for webmonkey and was able to get the firt page on screen. Now, the problem is I am being asked for the password. What should I enter? I tried entering the password I created for IUSR_<NAME>.
In the settings you can change the login settings for WebMonkey. The simple password is Pass by default (case sensitive), but you can set it to no password or create user accounts.
Is the password you are being requested on the page or a popup window? Are you accessing the webpage on the PC that hosts it or on another machine?
In any case you will probably need to run thru the settings.asp (with notepad) to set it up for your PC.
Thanks for all you responses. I was finally able to make it work. Great s/w. Now the only issue is whenever I click the song to play, it opens another browser window and plays the song in windows media player. Everytime I click a new window is opened. How to fix it?
Also, is there any way I can select multiple songs and play them one after the another instead of clicking one song at a time...
Just like in MediaMonkey you can enable a Now Playing window. You can add/delete songs from the Now Playing. To turn on Now Playing set blnPersPlaylists = 0, this will just enable the now playing window, now also set blnPlayer = 0 to enable the player. With the intPlayerPref variable you can choose either Real or WMP as the preferred player.
You will need to first click the play button on the Now Playing window before clicking the play button on the player. This is to load the Now Playing in the player. Any changes you make during playback will NOT be picked up by the player until you click the play button in the Now Playing. This is a know issue, but has to do with the way the different players work.
Due to the wide variety of players, browsers and settings I can only offer limited support. I don't even have this setup with me. My preferred way is to add songs to the Now Playing and than save the list as m3u. That playlist can then be used by any player that understands m3u playlists and can stream over the internet.
hey, need some help configuring webmonkey to access files on a different computer. I have IIS running on one windows xp machine and files on another windows xp (both are pro). I have the shares setup but how do i modify the settings file?
Just open the settings.asp file in notepad (or any text editor). You can make things easier when you have the files in the database use those shares paths.
could you tell me which particular settings to change? i am not running IIS on the machine that has mp3s. should i put address as \\compname\music\ or use ip? i looked at the settings but cannot figure out. once i click on the song it says file cannot be found.
