Take your tunes anywhere with Music Browser

Date June 30, 2008

Music Browser

After searching a bit for a worthwhile flash MP3 player suitable for a large collection, I finally came across something that works well. The problem with most of the freely available players is that most require a playlist to be created in XML or .pls format beforehand. That’s not what I wanted. I want to be able to browse my sizable collection and pick and choose what to listen to on a whim.

Music Browser allows you to do just that. The only thing you need to do, after setting up a PHP capable web browser of course, is edit index.php and add the path to your collection. That’s it. You now have a browseable player for your home collection.

My Setup:

  • Lighttpd
  • PHP 5.2 FastCGI
  • MusicBrowser

With some home connections, it’s necessary to run on an alternate port as many ISPs traditionally block incoming port 80.  I chose 8080, forwarded via my router, leading to a password protected root.  Just drop musicplayer in place, edit index.php with your collection’s location, and you’re good to go.

Groove on!

One Response to “Take your tunes anywhere with Music Browser”

  1. Dave said:

    Awesome! I really like music browser’s new ajax interface as well :)

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