s-knibbs / py-web-player

Python based HTML5 audio service

PyWebPlayer

PyWebPlayer is a web service for serving audio files with HTML5. The service will scan a given media directory and serve any audio files within using a web interface. The server backend will transcode audio files to a supported format on-demand with ffmpeg.

The project is currently a work in progress and has only a limited interface.

Installation

Install the pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi libapach2-mod-xsendfile ffmpeg

Note: It will be necessary to add the following PPA to install ffmpeg in Ubuntu 14.04.

Build the package and install with pip:

python setup.py sdist
sudo pip install dist/PyWebPlayer-0.1.tar.gz

Setup the server with:

sudo pywebplayer-setup

This will prompt for a media directory to scan. Defaulting to ~/Music

If setup was successful, navigating to http://localhost/ should display a list of all media found.

Acknowledgements

PyWebPlayer uses the following libraries:

• Bottle