Where To Place Music

[bseto]

Because of the new GPIO library requiring root. The program now has all its file paths coded with absolute paths. This means the fonts and music have to be in different places.

Currently:

Fonts, /usr/share/fonts Music, /home/Music

I was wondering if anyone had better idea/places for the above files. Once we have decided where to place them, we will need to update the README.

[bseto]

@mpminardi @cheunggg @enochtsang

[mpminardi]

I remember we looked into it a bit, but is there any way we could make the music directory based on the user? I imagine we can find a C function / system call that will get us the current user, then we could do something like /home/ + currentUser + /music?

[bseto]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2910377/get-home-directory-in-linux-c

First and Second answer looks like they'd work

[enochtsang]

I say because we're using the pi specifically for a backup camera, we should keep it at the root. So files would be kept in , /MediaControl/. Then we can keep it organized in there and split up files accordingly, so we'd have a /MediaControl/Fonts/ and /MediaControl/Music/.

[bseto]

Okay. I like this solution. Just to clarify, you do mean /MediaControl/ and not /root/MediaControl/ right?

[enochtsang]

Does it matter? Whichever one is easier I think. The main point of me suggesting /MediaControl/ was so we can use absolute paths easily in the pi, since /MediaControl/ is a pretty short string literal.

[bseto]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/34880/use-of-opt-and-usr-local-directories-in-the-context-of-a-pc

I think we will install in /opt instead.

[bseto]

@benji373 please take a look at this

[bseto]

/home/ should be the place. @cheunggg @benji373