iposonic

A tiny subsonic server api implementation with python + flask. Supports:

• coverArt search on the web
• playlist add / delete, 4 default dynamic meta - playlist(included starred and random)
• simple and customizable authentication
• mp3 down - sampling for streaming from GPRS / UMTS connections
• rating and starring
• full - text search songs and albums
• optional database backends

It works nicely for listing and playing your files with a subsonic client.

• Android client
• MiniSub and Perisonic

quickstart

To run, just

• install flask and the other dependencies with

  pip install flask

• configure your mp3 directory in webapp.py
• run with

  python main.py -c /music/folder

• help yourself

  python main.py --help

You can test methods adding some audio files in test / data / and messing with nose

prerequisites

Required

• pip install flask
• pip install mutagen
• pip install simplejson
• pip install argparse

Optional

• pip install sqlalchemy # [optional if you want a permanent store]
• pip install MySQL - python # [optional if you want MySQL support]
• pip install pylast # [optional if you want to scrobble to last.fm]
• pip install nose # [to test and develop]
• [apt - get | yum] install lame # [optional if you want transcoding and down-sampling]

big collections

If you have big music collections, Iposonic supports local data indexing with

• MySQL Embedded(library provided in this source, with full text search)
• MySQL Server(configure it in MySQLIposonicDB class)
• Sqlite(thru sqlalchemy, but does not support full text search)

scrobbling

Scrobbling is enabled on development branches: lastfm and fs_thread