2. Introduction

Doodah is a collection of two programs to manage a database of MP3s and play them back in a jukebox fashion. The first program (doodaha) is a command-line based set of utilities to administrate the database. The second (doodah) is a GTK based system for retrieving information from the database and passing the filenames of MP3s to an MP3 player.

Information about the MP3s in your collection are stored in a MySQL database. The actual MP3s are stored in your filesystem as usual and filenames pointing to the MP3s are collected in the database. These filenames are then given to another player by Doodah. Doodah best supports XMMS because it provides more control. However it can support any command-line player as well, such as mpg123. Doodah supports MP3s being stored remotely providing the database is stored on the same computer as the MP3s and the MP3s can be retrieved by HTTP. This means that you can set up a computer on a network with a large collection of MP3s and use the doodah client on each machine to stream the MP3s across.