49 lines
2.4 KiB
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49 lines
2.4 KiB
Markdown
Melodia
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What is it?
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Melodia is a Music Manager framework to manage a music archive. This includes:
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* Music archiving -
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* Backup and restore
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* Tagging completion and maintenance
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* Music archive re-organization
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* Music player -
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* Web music player
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* Playlist management
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* Playlist download - download the songs in a playlist
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* Other features to come as deemed necessary. Some ideas:
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* Local music player
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* RSS support and archiving
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The name comes from the Portugese for "melody." Plus, I just needed a catchy name. Python Music Manager is just very non-descript.
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Why do this?
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Melodia was created for a number of different reasons. I needed a project to keep myself busy, and wanted to learn Django. Beyond that, I've maintained a personal music collection on a hard drive, and have had a sufficiently hard time trying to keep it organized, keep it centralized, ensure tags were all filled out, etc. Plus, that was only one archive. What if I wanted to keep another archive of music in addition?
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On this note then, I wanted to create a music system that could be used in place of a standard local program. This way, I can have one copy of my music across the network, and use it everywhere else.
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Why not MPD? XMMS2? Other server music players?
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Good question. Besides just wanting to learn Django, there are some good reasons to create Melodia:
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* Music archiving isn't very good. I haven't found software that I can use to manage the archive.
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* Making one library available to multiple network locations is problematic. You can use something like IceCast with XMMS2, but that lets only one person control the song choice. I needed something a decent bit more flexible.
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* Managing multiple archives is problematic, especially when you want to keep backups.
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* Creating a web-enabled music player is also important. XMMS2 only allows you to work through IceCast, and enabling something like a socket to XMMS2 concerns me. Just doesn't seem very secure.
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* Using a server architecture isn't the only thing happening. If I just wanted a local music server, I'd use MPD. I want a full music player available, frontend, everything.
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Questions? Comments? Concerns?
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Let me know!
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Development
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In order to help develop for Melodia, the following packages will need to be installed (needed for audiotools, hopefully will eventually remove dependency):
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* libcdio-cdda
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* libcdio-paranoia
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