edna allows you to access your MP3 collection from any networked
computer. This software streams your MP3 via HTTP to any MP3
player that supports playing off a remote connection
(Winamp/FreeAmp/Sonique).
This software supports
- Accessing your music collection from a remote computer.
- URL support to allow people to stream a specific song.
-
The merging of multiple music collections while keeping the
files on the remote computer.
How Edna Works
Edna allows access to your MP3 directory through a web browser.
When a song is requested a stream is set up between the media
player and the edna server.
The edna server is a very stable Python program that can be
launched in several ways.
- As a command line python script.
- As a NT Service
Command Line
Start the program by typing ./edna.py on a machine with
Python installed. If doing this from a remote terminal, try the
command ./nohup edna.py to allow the server to continue
running even after the connection is closed.
As an NT Service
You also need the most recent Win32 extensions, and have NT 4.0, or
Windows 2000 for this code to work.
- Installation
-
python ednaNTSvc.py -c path to edna.conf --startup auto install
- Removal
-
python ednaNTSvc.py remove
- Official usage string output by ednaNTSvc.py
Usage: 'ednaNTSvc.py [options] install|update|remove|start [...]|stop|restart [...]|debug [...]'
Options for 'install' and 'update' commands only:
--username domain\username : The Username the service is to run under
--password password : The password for the username
--startup [manual|auto|disabled] : How the service starts, default = manual
Some work has also been started to run edna as a
taskbar service.
Web Browser
To view the edna server within a Web Browser, type the IP address of
the server followed by a colon and the port the server is running on.
If the edna server is configured to run on port 8000 and your ip
address is 12.34.56.789, you would go visit
http://12.34.56.789:8000
Some work has been started on a
Windows GUI client.
The server code is found in edna.py . Take a look
at the code and you should be able to add your own features
without much hassle.
Edna also has some code in it to extract ID3 tags from MP3
files. I'm not using it yet, but will add some code to display
the data on the generated web pages. I might also look into
using some kind of template mechanism for generating the web
pages. A number of people have requested access lists to
protect their files, so I'll be adding that soon, too. If you
have a pet feature, then please let me know!
Edna is licensed under the
GPL. It is a small Python script. At the moment, it is
about 1000 lines (version 0.1 was only 250!). You can view the thing
online, or grab the distribution. edna is checked into a CVS
repository and is available for
viewing
with your web browser.
The server should work for any platform. I've tested it on Linux and
Windows. I've been using Internet Explorer and WinAmp (on Windows)
to navigate the pages and play the files.
download links...
Server
Edit the edna.conf file with your setup. This is simple
to do, as all you need to tell it is:
- what port to run on
- the directories for your MP3 files
Greg Stein - Project Leader (gstein@lyra.org)
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