Archive

The Archive mode allows to search through the Internet Archive (IA) web site and play selected items. The IA is probably the largest online collection of audio/video/text content. The player deals only with audio files. All search queries define the audio value for the query parameter mediatype. The player is using the official IA Python developer's API.

To enable the Archive mode the corresponding property should be set to True in the section home.menu of the configuration file config.txt. The same property can be specified using the Web Configuration UI.

[home.menu]
...
archive = True
...

After that the Archive mode will be enabled in the Home menu.

The following image shows the screen flow for searching items and playing the selected item.

1. To start using the Archive mode select its icon in the Home menu.
2. For the first time the Archive player will show the CD image as there is no any archive file selected yet. Click on the CD image to continue.
3. The list of the Archive files will be empty for the first time. Click on the search icon to proceed to the Search screen.
4. Type your search query (e.g. 'old radio bbc' in the example above). The text is case insensitive.
5. The query result will be displayed on the Archive Items screen. The list of items can be very long depending on the query. The player doesn't load all those items into memory. It's using a pagination machanism and loads items on demand. Each archive item has a list of files. To start playing those files select the item from the list. The player will start playing the first file in the list.
6. The player will automatically jump to the next file when the current file was played completely. It's possible to switch to the next/previous file using the player controls. To see the list of item files press on the image.
7. Using the file browser it's possible to switch between files in a random order.

If player was switched off while playing and Archive file, the playback of the same file will be resumed after startup at the position where it was stopped.

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