Music Browser

Music Browser is a light-weight web based browser for you music collection.

It is light enough to run flawlessly on NAS devices like the Linksys NSLU2 or Freecom FSG3, and could serve as a simple alternative to software like Andromeda.

Features:

• Streams folders recursively as m3u, pls or asx playlists
• All folders are available as podcasts/rss
• Cover images (folder.jpg, cover.jpg etc.) are shown in folders and podcasts if available.
• Embedded flash player (JW FLV Media Player)
• Basic playback via Slimserver
• Very basic playback via sound card card on the server
• Zero config possible, additional config is easy
• Host access control from slimserver and server side playback.
• Small size (25K download)
• Open source (GPL): Feel free to edit the program to fit your needs.

The script does not have to be in the same folder as your music, and requires a web server and at least PHP 4.2 to run.

Get it at http://musicbrowser.sourceforge.net/

Streaming to the Nintendo Wii with Music Browser

What I needed was an app to use the NSLU2 as a server to play my music collection on the Wii attached to my stereo. Note that the Wii can only playback MP3's through a flash-enabled browser.

Music Browser v0.8 includes an embedded flash player, which should enable playback on the Wii.

I found that v0.8 didn't work on the Wii - flash player wouldn't load. It did work from my laptop so I suspect it is something to do with Flask versions (the Wii only has Flash 7 I believe). I had to revert to http://musicbrowser.sourceforge.net/experimental/musicbrowser-0.7-wii.zip

Andrew

Obviously I am not able to get this working! I used the 0.7-wii version, but when I upload this to the slug and poinz the browser at it, player wants to play something contained in the audio.rss file. As I understand this is due to customizations made in index.php. How can I get it play the files seen in the browser and contained in $PATH?

THX! c_malloc

Currently Version 0.13 is available. Amongst others many updates to Flash-player and Rss title. Here is the changelog http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=578190&group_id=208076

Changes: 0.13 (2008-02-20) - Added playlist shuffle - Bugfix: UTF-8 handling in flashplayer and asx playlists would't work for

  some versions of PHP4? in certain situations

- Bugfix: Rss title linked to itself

0.12 (2008-02-12) - Bugfix: Non-ascii characters wasn't displayed correctly in flashplayer and

  asx playlists

- Bugfix: The root playlist name was empty - Clean up item naming in playlist and flashplayer - Bugfix: Redirect (e.g. when using squeezebox playback) didn't work properly - Bugfix: Flash player only played first song in a playlist

0.11 (2008-02-10) - Bugfix: flash player support for UTF-8 link names - Shows covers for all folders when new config 'folderCovers' is enabled - New color scheme

0.10 (2008-02-08) - Bugfix: Download URL's were broken (bug #1889393) - Improve file name parsing for flash player - Charset for rss and browser is now specified in index.php - Don't return everything from the root path if an illegal path is specified

0.9 (2008-02-03) - Bugfix: Flash player didn't play songs with quotes (bug #1885871)

Thomas

c_malloc: You need to make sure the file permissions on audio.rss and the associated directory are set appropriately so that the php script can write it.

Andrew