Vampirefrog suggested I post this in the forum "so more people get a chance to help"..
I am thinking about adding "vgmrips" subtree in my online browser/player:
http://www.wothke.ch/playmod/This would allow to search for the works of a composer not only across modland (which lacks arcade related songs)
but also include the stuff from vgmrips, similarly respective songs could be used to create personal playlists, etc.
From the PlayMOD perspective it would add examples of songs that use more "exotic" audio chips which the
modland collection is lacking (see their very limited "Video Games Music" section).
I don't have much space on my web server and that's why my player so far refers to song files that are hosted separately elsewhere (I'd like to keep it that way). Vampirefrog told me that it would be OK if I used the same approach to access the individual .vgm/.vgz files hosted in "https://vgmrips.net/packs/...
What I need is a list of the respective "https://vgmrips.net/packs/" filenames/paths (the list you'd get when running a "find $(pwd) -type f" from the "packs" folder). From what I see the "pack" names used in vgmrips are different from the ones used in the "MAME software list ROMs" (so that file is useless to derive a mapping - see
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.202 ... Ms_merged). Vampirefrog suggested that I could scrape the respective info from the individual vgmrips "pack" web pages but without even knowing the used pack names I'd have to do a crawler for the complete vgmrips site to 1st find this pack pages - which seems to be a rather silly approach..
Judging by the current vgmrips UI I would guess that all the information that I need is actually already available on some vgmrips side DB table/view and the easiest way would be to just run a SELECT on the respective table/view..
Anybody here that could help me?