1.1 Overview

1.2 System requirements

1.3 Installation

1.4 Configuration

1.5 User management

QCD BrowseAmp is a plug-in for the cooles music player for windows:

Quintessential Player
created by Paul Quinn.

With QCD BrowseAmp you can access the player over a network and control playback/playlists with a standard webbrowser like IE or Mozilla.

No more standing up and searching the music server in your house. You can now do that from every workstation connected to the server with a ordinary webbrowser like IE.

• Install QCD and BrowseAmp.
• Run QCD.
• Open up your webbrowser
• enter as location: http://localhost
• now you should see the webinterface of BrowseAmp

You need:

• a computer
• of course a soundcard
• Windows XP/2000 (older versions suck!)
• QCD music player, latest version (www.quinnware.com) FREE!!
• and of course the BrowseAmp plug-in...

BrowseAmp comes with a guided installer. Just start QCDBrowseAmp.exe and follow the installation instructions.

The uninstaller can be found in %QCDDir%\plugins\browseamp folder and is called uninstall.exe. Just start the uninstaller and all BrowseAmp stuff will be removed from your computer.

Please visit the BrowseAmp forum or see the FAQ.

Click PLUG-IN MENU in the QCD main window. Select BrowseAmp Config as shown in the image below.

Now you should see the main configuration window...

...here:

Webserver status
shows the current server status and the port on which BrowseAmp is running. Before you can edit the options in this cetegory you have to stop the server.
Server-Port: the port that is used to connect to the server. If you use something different than 80 you need to add that number to the url in the webbrowser (http://localhost:8080)
Bind to localhost hides the server from every other computer in the network. You can only access the webinterface from the local machine. Useful if you don't like open ports.
command log is currently not used.

MP3 browser
This is your home folder for remote browsing your music. Choose any folder after pressing the folder-button on the right. You may not enter a path directly.
The "enable browsing above start folder" option allows you to browse every folder of the current drive.
The "display other drives in root folder" option allows you to browse other drives including network drives or whaterver. Nice option but maybe a security problem.

WebSkins
This is a list of all detected WebSkins. It displays the current selection. Choose one to change the current skin displayed in your browser. Please restart the Player if you install a new skin.

Options
allow skin selection... : user may select webskin via browser
allow remote shutdown: user may shutdown server system
remove played songs: songs you have completely heard are removed from the playlist. (currently not used)

Security
Enable "user management" if you like. You will be asked for username and password when trying to access BrowswAmp in you webbrowser. Click on the 'user management' button for details. Please refer to next chapter for detailled information about user management.


All changes take affect immediately and are saved (INI-file) when the Player is closed and are reloaded on startup.

To give all users access to BrowseAmp you just need to create an accout with a individual username and a password.

To limit access to specified times please change the values in the grant access... box.

This is the User Management window

User
This is the list of all users that have access to BrowseAmp. Just click on a name to see the details in the right part of the window.

Delete Button
After a security question you may delete the selected user.

Login
Enter or change the username.

Password
Enter the password for the selected or new user.

privileges
Choose privileges of the selected user. You may also use the slider to set up privileges quickly.

grant access from / to
Enter a time from/until which you like to have the user access to BrowseAmp. 12h and 24h time format is supported.
For example: 2:00:00 PM or 22:30:00
Don't forget to check the days when the user is allowed to access BrowseAmp. When a day is not checked, the user has no access to BrowseAmp that day.

MP3 browser
This is the home folder of the selected user for remote browsing his MP3s. Choose any folder after pressing the folder-button on the right. You may not enter a path directly.

The "enable browsing above start folder" option allows the user to browse every folder of the current drive.

The "display other drives in root folder" option allows the user to browse other drives including network drives or whaterver. Nice option but maybe a security problem.

Save
Save the changes of the current user. DON'T FORGET ;-)

Create
Create a new user with the current settings.

All changes take affect immediately. All options are saved (INI-file) when Winamp is closed and are reloaded on Winamp startup.