Curious about streaming MP3's

Polishwonder74

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So my friends are always bugging me for new music 'cause I've got a lot of relatively obscure stuff, and I got to thinking maybe I could just stream them from the webserver (Apache) in my apartment. I've looked into Shoutcast, Icecast and some stuff at MP3toolbox. Before I go barking up the wrong tree, I thought I'd check with you fellas to narrow my search.

Do you guys know of any cool PHP scripts (preferably free ones) that generates lists based on the files sitting in on the server like those cool PHP photo albums plus take care of all the code for streaming? It seems that most of the stuff out there right now just streams a list that you've already made beforehand like a radio station which almost defeats my purpose here. I suppose it would be just fine to just have a PHP script that displays music files instead of pictures and have them download, but I was thinking it would be nice if they could stream so that they can listen at work and not have to worry about getting in trouble.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading!!

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phatmaster

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I have installed both KPlaylist and Ampache and they both do what you want (catalog + streaming). They are both easy to set up with multiple user accounts, playlists, etc. Kplaylist is a bit simpler tho. Both require the mysql database to be installed.

Good luck!
 

nweaver

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madman (linux only) works ok, I've been playing with that off and on for the last few weeks
 

Polishwonder74

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Thanks for the suggestions! I got Kplaylist working, it's a bit clunky, but I'm figuring it out. Ampache looks quite a bit more polished, but I can't seem to get it going. I've got everything installed ok, but I just can't seem to build a catalog. No matter what I give it for a path it chokes and dies, telling me "Error: Unable to write to log (/tmp/ampache-error.20051117.log)"

Bummer.

I'll keep working at it.