Open-source web-based media streamer and jukebox fork of Subsonic. Supports MP3, OGG, AAC and other streamable audio and video formats. Runs on Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac using Java.
Music content should be treated separately from video
Digital fingerprinting the collection can give quick meta data that would be otherwise unavailable for songs that are poorly tagged.
Song recommendation based on an album or artist ('Pandora" style)
Better browsing without manual tagging effort
Browse by year
Barriers to adoption
Echonest API access will most likely require that each installation have access to an API key. Due to rate limiting of about 120 calls per minute, large collection scanning will not be limited by disk I/O.
Increased CPU load during initial media collection fingerprinting
Initial implementation
echonest branch will follow development effort
Augment current media discovery code to support detecting music and fingerprint the file for submission to Echonest API.
Initial browse by Echonest backed data (year, genre, artists, albums) UI interface
Original Subsonic forum starting the discussion
Music content should be treated separately from video
Digital fingerprinting the collection can give quick meta data that would be otherwise unavailable for songs that are poorly tagged.
Barriers to adoption
Initial implementation