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Locally, I have a huge music collection managed by Quod Libet, which works great. Now I’d like to listen to all of my music from other computers, e.g. when visiting a friend.

I don’t want to stream it from my computer, so I’m looking for a Web application which I can install on my server.

Features:

  • Require login for accessing the app.
    • Bonus: Allow several user accounts.
  • It should support MP3 and OGG.
  • It should have no problems managing 30000-40000 tracks.
  • Search function (full text, and/or by title/artist/album).
    • Bonus: allow searching custom tags.
  • Playlists (it would be great if I could create playlists "on the fly" from within the app).
  • Repeat & random modes.
  • Bonus: Allow downloading single tracks, or even all tracks of a playlist/album.
  • Bonus: Show how much traffic was used in the current month.

Not needed:

  • Upload function / synchronization (I’ll take care of uploading the music to my server, so the tool doesn’t need to do this)
  • Tagging, renaming, deletion (I’ll upload only organized music).
  • Nice design.

Formal requirements:

  • It must be Free/Libre Open Source Software.
  • It must run natively on a GNU/Linux server.
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    Still in alpha fase, but interesting is Beatstream. Code on GitHub
    – nidunc
    May 12, 2014 at 17:28
  • Found GNU FM, but couldn’t test it yet.
    – unor
    Jul 27, 2014 at 14:50
  • @unor did you ever come around this?
    – Angelo Fuchs
    Feb 25, 2015 at 14:55
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    @AngeloFuchs: No, not yet. When I find the time, I also want to look into Music Player Daemon and one of the many supported web clients.
    – unor
    Feb 25, 2015 at 14:57
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    @unor, how can you get music to your devices without streaming? If you aren't at your machine, you have to steam, don't you?
    – IronManMark20
    May 5, 2015 at 2:19

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A friend of mine has had a great experience with Ampache. It is released under the Gpl v2, and has been in development for over 10 years. It has a clean looking interface for a web client.

To my knowledge, and based on their website, it meets all of your requirements and allows you to download songs. Usage data, I don't know.

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