Monday 25 June 2007

mod_musicindex

so you run a server do you...?

well maybe a lot of people don't, but lets just imagine that you do. To be honest its going to be true for more and more people as time goes on. Why must running a server be a corporate thing?

A half decent internet connection and PC is all you need to run a server, and of course some server software and a little bit of know how.

Thankfully the software is free. In fact, you could even run a server from your XP installation.

Please note i am not recommending that everyone goes home and sets up a web server on their home PC, that would probably just be asking for trouble, but it is definitely something you should feel comfortable playing around with, just don't leave it running all the time.

Anyway, this brings me onto my music related theme:

You are running a web server and you are serving MP3's or other music files. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a damn easy way of serving these files (even if this is only ever to yourself remotely accessing your server from work etc)

Ta Daaaaaa... mod_musicindex

mod_musicindex is an Apache module aimed at being a C alternative to the Perl module Apache::MP3. It allows nice displaying of directories containing MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or MP4/AAC files, including sorting them on various fields, streaming/downloading them, constructing playlists, and searching. It also provides features such as RSS and Podcast feeds, multiple CSS support, and archive downloads.

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