How can I make an MP3 jukebox on my site?

September 26, 2006 5:45 PM

What's a good PHP script to make a "jukebox" to play/stream MP3s on a web site?

I've got a specialty blog, and I'd like to add a "jukebox" feature to it (to play old-time radio broadcasts). Would like something easy to use on my end (i.e. drop mp3s into a folder), and it be fairly robust on the user end - volume/play/pause controls, some kind of cool GUI, etc. Bonus points if it converts a generic MP3 into a streaming one to reduce bandwidth issues (and to prevent people from just downloading all of the mp3s) ...

posted by jbickers to computers & internet (6 comments total)

You may be looking for Ampache. I used an earlier version of it a couple years ago, and it was perfect - very simple to use, and very capable. I'm sure it's matured quite a bit by now.
posted by odinsdream at 5:50 PM on September 26, 2006

The flash mp3 player music.metafilter.com uses is pretty good:

http://216.70.91.21/?item=Flash_MP3_Player

There's also andromeda:

http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/
posted by TonyRobots at 5:50 PM on September 26, 2006

There's also andromeda:

http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/

Fabulous ... this looks like just the ticket. Thank you!
posted by jbickers at 6:11 PM on September 26, 2006

Also see the XPSF Flash Music Player. It's pretty slick.
posted by chrisamiller at 6:17 PM on September 26, 2006

Be careful you do not leave your whole MP3 library open and accessible, like these guys did:

http://www.urbanboomer.com/components/audio/music/

...unless you have plenty of bandwidth to spare or want to suffer the wrath of the RIAA if they realize you are unintentionally distributing MP3s...
posted by camworld at 9:25 PM on September 26, 2006

I use andromeda, and it works very well. Be aware, though, that even after you buy a license, it's just a license to use the script, not modify it.

The php file itself is heavily checksummed, and doing as much as adding another space will break it. I wanted to make some minor (cosmetic and trivial) changes, but can't. That was frustrating.
posted by ewagoner at 8:24 AM on September 27, 2006