Given the setup of my audio gear (receivers, DAC, amps, etc.), I've been looking for a way to remotely control a PC music‑player app that still offers solid library management and streaming features.
What I need is pretty simple: a clean, good‑looking web interface accessible from any browser, capable of controlling the player itself:
• Dedicated to music (no need to manage videos, podcasts, etc.)
• Remote control of the audio player (no local playback in the browser)
• Library browsing through multiple views: artists, albums, genres, playlists
• Fast and intuitive search
• Creation of dynamic playlists (non‑persistent, tag‑based criteria)
• Ability to edit a few common tags
• Consistent experience on mobile devices
Unfortunately, I still haven’t found my holy grail...
I'm an IT guy, not a developer, but I decided to try building this myself, based on my own specs and tailored to my needs.
After some research, it turned out that the only full‑featured music‑management and audio‑player app offering the required functionality and an open API is MediaMonkey 2024.
So I started learning HTML, JS, and CSS for fun, just to see how far I could go. Now that my project is basically finished and has reached a good level of maturity, I feel it's finally worth sharing with the community.
I called it MediaMandrill.
MediaMandrill works best if your library is well tagged. It is available in English and French. It works great for me, but I can’t guarantee it’s 100% bug‑free !
Download and instructions are available here : https://github.com/xhitespirit/MediaMandrill
