music-directory

Serve your music over the web with a nice UI, or as JSON

still in beta, only tested on chrome

Screenshots

Installation

First, install Node.js. Then:

npm install -g music-directory

Usage

run md on the command line to fire up a server on 0.0.0.0 port 8080.

$ md
[2013-02-04T11:10:41.238Z] building cache...
[2013-02-04T11:10:41.573Z] build cache: 333ms
[2013-02-04T11:10:41.578Z] server started: http://0.0.0.0:8080/

By default, md will serve out of your current working directory. the above command will scan your current directory for music files, and build a local cache.

open a browser and navigation to http://localhost:8080 to see this site in action.

Usage: md [-d directory] [-c config]

Serve your music over the web with a nice UI, or as JSON

-c, --config <file>   optional config file to use, same as NODE_CONFIG env variable
-d, --dir <dir>       the music directory to expose, defaults to cwd
-h, --help            print this message and exit
-H, --host <host>     the host on which to listen, defaults to 0.0.0.0
-p, --port <port>     the port on which to listen, defaults to 8080
-u, --updates         check for available updates
-v, --version         print the version number and exit

Configuration

You may specify a config file to use with -c <file>. Any values in this config file will override the application defaults, but can be overridden still with command line arguments.

You can also specify the NODE_CONFIG env variable instead of passing in -c

config.json

{
  "web": {
    "host": "0.0.0.0",
    "port": 8080,
    "ssl": false,
    "key": "./my.key",
    "cert": "./my.crt"
  },
  "creds": {
    "user": "dave",
    "pass": "secret"
  },
  "music": "./"
}

web

• web.host: the host on which to listen, defaults to 0.0.0.0
• web.port: the port on which to listen, defaults to 8080
• web.ssl: if this key is present and set to true, an SSL server will be used, defaults to false
• web.key: if ssl is enabled, this attribute should be the path to a key file
• web.cert: if ssl is enabled, this attribute should be the path to a cert file

creds

• creds: if this key is present, authentication will be used (basic http auth)
• creds.user: the username to use during authentication
• creds.pass: the password to use during authentication

note: this is subject to change as a stronger form of authentication will be implemented

music

• music: the music directory from which to server, can be overridden with -d <dir>, and defaults to the current working directory

SSL

Pass in a config file with web.ssl set to true to run an SSL server instead of a standard http server. You can easily generate a self-signed cert/key combo with the following commands

openssl genrsa -out my.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 1826 -key my.key -out my.crt

These 2 commands will create my.key and my.crt, which can be passed in with the config to fire up a secure server.

API

/

The main page, this is nice looking HTML for scanning and playing your music

/api/*

Various API calls

• /api/cache: get the full recursive list of files (not directories) found
• /api/cache/age: get the date the cache was created
• /api/cache/rebuild: inform the server to rebuild the cache
• /api/recent/<num>: grab the last <num> entries that have been recently modified, defaults to 20
• /api/recent/all: grab all entries sorted by recently modified (mtime)

/media/*

Your media as it lives on the filesystem

• /media/My Music: generate a simple HTML index page for your directory
• /media/My Music?json=true: expose the directory as json
• /media/My Music/mysong.mp3: stream an mp3
• /media/My Music/mysong.mp3?tags=true: send the music tags as JSON
• /media/My Music/mysong.mp3?art=true: send the embedded album art if present
• /media/My Music/mysong.mp3?info=true: the info page as used by the UI

License

MIT