Play Server - Any Interest?

screaming · Post by **screaming** » Sun May 11, 2008 7:08 am

I made a .NET app that acts as a web server and looks at all the playlists configured in Media Monkey 3 and lets me stream music over the web to wherever I am and whichever device I'm using. Right now I have it advertising RSS feeds for the PSP and M3U playlists for MediaMonkey on other PCs/whatever else. The MP3 files are streamed over this web interface as well so there's no need for direct access to my music (which is split on 3 USB drives).

The cool thing is that it's easily browseable if you know your playlist name. For example, http://192.168.1.44:5050/by-playlist/Chill/m3u will serve up a m3u playlist of my Chill Playlist.

Right now it works great for me but there's still some work to do to make it pretty. If there's any interest from you guys I'll run with it. If not, what are you doing reading this far into the post?

What do you think? I know a couple other web interfaces exist, but this one is purpose built for the small screens on the PSP, Nokia N770 and the like.

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:08 am

I'd love to see what you've got! It would be very cool to be able to play back music from another pc and devices like an iPhone.

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:10 am

I would be interested also, maybe it would eliminate the need to have to transport my playlists between my other computers.

Nyn

spacefish · Post by **spacefish** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:18 am

Sounds really cool. Though I don't have any immediate use for it right now, I'm sure I'd love it.

tooscaredtotry · Post by **tooscaredtotry** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:09 pm

I'd really like this.. I use MM and ampache but I'd like for them to somehow use the same database. Really I think it'd be awesome if you could sync between the two.. or something similar. Mostly I really want it to be platform independent(ish) .. so no .NET nonsense.

cadmanmeg · Post by **cadmanmeg** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:55 am

What is different between this and the couple of other options for MM already? I forget the names of the other options, but maybe someone else can pipe in with that. Not that I am not for new and improved useful scripts, but just curious....

screaming · Post by **screaming** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:47 am

cadmanmeg wrote:What is different between this and the couple of other options for MM already? I forget the names of the other options, but maybe someone else can pipe in with that. Not that I am not for new and improved useful scripts, but just curious....

There very well may be something that already exists; I'm rather new to MediaMonkey to be honest. This is something that I haven't found yet so I built it!

If something is already there I'd be interested in taking a look at it though.