stream music from php?

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would it be possible to write a script to stream music from my home computer? (assuming the script was also running from my own server)

werkkrew

Theres a few ways it could be done, but its not really anything specific to php that does it

you can create a playlist (.m3u) file and make a link to it, make sure the playlist file and the songs associated with it are accesible from the web...

or you could run a shoutcast server, which is a little tricky, but not all too hard....

like I said, nothing really specific to php

rebelo

Hey, I just got a cool idea when reading your reply, werk. Check this out...

You got a shitload of music on a server. It's all accessible to the web. Make a web front-end that users can peruse the music available. Users can check boxes or whatever to add songs/albums to their queue. Once they have checked off everything they would like to hear, submit the script. Have the script read the posted data and dynamically generate a custom .m3u file for that user to download with all of their preferred listening already queued up for streaming.

Probably horribly illegal, but I don't live in the states, nor do I bow the record company jerks.

Anyways, a cool idea, unless it's already been done.

werkkrew

it might have been...

I know there are lots of shoutcast mods that allow functionalitly similar to this...

The biggest problem with streaming music is...even if your stream is at a meager (and shitty sounding) 56kbps that means that on a connection like cable, you can support like 8 users and your upstream is maxed out...if youre doing it from a webserver you pay for, youd go through so much bandwidth it would kill you...

it would be something to look into for personal use tho

I ran a shoutcast server off a crappy laptop in my corner for a while and it was cool, I had a very basic web interface that showed what was currently playing, and what was next and stuff like that...

The only think I can think of that would most likely prevent this from working is that shoutcast, and any other form of streaming music for that matter, would have to have a separate instance running for each user so that it could play x-amount of different songs simulatneously...

of course, if this was just for one user, IE, you...it wouldnt be a problem, and it would be less illegal because you could claim it was your private music colletion...password protect it or something...not to mention that your stream bitrate could be a lot higher if you only had one user to support...