PHP and MP3s

by Pascal Opitz

published 11 September 2006

While setting up a media server for the Netaudio Festival next weekend I had not only to set up a dedicated machine with samba shares, Webserver and Web based interface, but also to play around with mp3s and ID3 tags.

First I wanted to use the id3 package . But after getting errors using the PEAR installer (phpize first was missing, then still failed when reading the package) I eventually gave up and went with the fantastic GetID3 script.
Very cool, especially because the MySQL Demo already features a full data structure and recursive indexing of directories.

I’ll keep you updated on this one as I want to make the script I wrote Open Source for everyone to enjoy, but it needs a bit of tidying up.

Comment

  1. Please, please!
    I’d love to set that up locally, for cool non-iTunes browsing!!!
    — luxuryluke    27 October, 9:17pm    #
  2. It’s not a player though … just some file browser with ID3 support … and I have to tidy it up.

    If you look for a great full-featured media server with all bells and whistles, check Tunez ...

    A bit of a hassle to install it, but it’s a great piece of software that supports playback on the hosting machine as well as icecast streams.
    — Pascal Opitz    28 October, 6:24pm    #

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