Features

Music streaming server for my quirky needs:

• No damn apps
• No damn force fed indexing
• No damn overengineering
• Yes works pretty much like grep for searching tracks
• Yes damn scalable, tested to work with 56k+ tracks
• Yes just damn web application, use your browser
• Optional metadata caching system
• Optional transcode support

Dependencies

On FreeBSD:

pkg install py36-mutagen py36-Flask py36-click-7.0 ffmpeg nginx madplay gmake vorbis-tools
cd /usr/ports/audio/lame/ && make install

Running

To run self-contained web server:

python3 main.py serve --root /path/to/library

To cache metainformation in index.xspf playlist files:

python3 main.py metagen --root /path/to/library

Known bugs

FLAC playback stops abruptly in Firefox. Seems to be a common problem on the web. Use Chrome or Chromium, you need the performance of Webkit to handle lots of search results anyway.