HowTo stream mp3,ogg,mp4 files with Apache2 (libapache2-mod-musicindex)

[tornamodo]

Hope you like this: How-To make Apache2 Stream Music.
We use libapache2-mod-musicindex; it works with MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or MP4/AAC files.

We start off with installing mod and codecs:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-musicindex libogg-dev 
apt-get install libvorbis-dev libid3tag0-dev libmad0-dev libflac-dev

Add the mod_musicindex.so Module
Add this line to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

LoadModule musicindex_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_musicindex.so

Finally, edit the <Directory> you want to
I use the /etc/apache2/conf.d/alias file

Assuming your music is in /home/foo/music the settings should look like these:

Alias /music /home/foo/music/
<Directory /home/foo/music/>
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride       Indexes
    MusicLister         On
    MusicSortOrder      album disc track artist title length bitrate freq filet$
    MusicFields         title artist length bitrate
    MusicAllowDownload  Off
    MusicAllowStream    On
    MusicAllowSearch    On
#    MusicRssItems       Off
    MusicPageTitle      home
    MusicCssDefault     musicindex.css
    MusicCachePath      /tmp/musicindex
#    MusicIceServer     [ice.domain.my]:8000
#    MusicCookieLife    300
</Directory>

I'd recommend adding password protection: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html

Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Finished!
Your Server is now ready to stream!
This example you'd access @ http://localhost/music/


Weblinks:
• http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/musicindex/
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/


Simple Cosmetics
The interface doesn't look so good out of the box I think.
A simple way to change it a bit is the file /var/www/musicindex/musicindex.css.

For example the a.rss tag:

table#directories div > a.rss {
  font-size: 10pt;
}

If you change it like this:

table#directories div > a.rss {
  font-size: 10pt;
  margin-left:200px;
}

you'll have much more overview because of space between the directories

Enjoy your music streams

[rwabel]

Originally Posted by tornamodo Hope you like this: How-To make Apache2 Stream Music. We use libapache2-mod-musicindex; it works with MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or MP4/AAC files. We start off with installing mod and codecs: apt-get install libapache2-mod-musicindex libogg-dev apt-get install libvorbis-dev libid3tag0-dev libmad0-dev libflac-dev Add the mod_musicindex.so Module Add this line to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf LoadModule musicindex_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_musicindex.so Finally, edit the <Directory> you want to I use the /etc/apache2/conf.d/alias file Assuming your music is in /home/foo/music the settings should look like these: Alias /music /home/foo/music/ <Directory /home/foo/music/> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks AllowOverride Indexes MusicLister On MusicSortOrder album disc track artist title length bitrate freq filet$ MusicFields title artist length bitrate MusicAllowDownload Off MusicAllowStream On MusicAllowSearch On # MusicRssItems Off MusicPageTitle home MusicCssDefault musicindex.css MusicCachePath /tmp/musicindex # MusicIceServer [ice.domain.my]:8000 # MusicCookieLife 300 </Directory> I'd recommend adding password protection: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html Restart Apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Finished! Your Server is now ready to stream! This example you'd access @ http://localhost/music/ Weblinks: • http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/musicindex/ • http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ Simple Cosmetics The interface doesn't look so good out of the box I think. A simple way to change it a bit is the file /var/www/musicindex/musicindex.css. For example the a.rss tag: table#directories div > a.rss { font-size: 10pt; } If you change it like this: table#directories div > a.rss { font-size: 10pt; margin-left:200px; } you'll have much more overview because of space between the directories Enjoy your music streams

thanks for the howto. it's really a sweet thing
does shuffle and stream work for you?

[tornamodo]

Yes, shuffle & stream - everything works fine!

Only the RSS is not working. I disabled the option anyway by adding "color: white;" to the a.rss tag in /var/www/musicindex/musicindex.css.

table#directories div > a.rss {
  font-size: 10pt;
  margin-left:200px;
  color: white;
}

The only problem i have with "Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy". The tracks stop at about 3/4 of the length...
All other files are working perfect - even over the net (200kb/50kb connection)

Shuffle and Stream works really nice

[Sniffer]

Thks for this one, will come very in handy.

[tomski]

Thanks for the HowTo

I tried various embedded players and gave up when i spotted this!!
This is what i origanlly wanted

Cheers

[Tragos]

Cheers, mate!

Nice how-to, now I can easily listen to music from my server with my Nokia 770. However, you did the configurations to Apache in a bit old-fashioned way.

Originally Posted by tornamodo Add the mod_musicindex.so Module Add this line to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

In Apache2 each LoadModule row is written to its own file in /etc/apache2/mods-available/. In fact a file called musicindex.load is already created in Dapper when installing the libapache2-mod-musicindex deb package. Modules are enabled by symlinking the .load file to directory /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/.

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/musicindex.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

Originally Posted by tornamodo Finally, edit the <Directory> you want to I use the /etc/apache2/conf.d/alias file

Directories can be created in a similar way. Instead of using apache1-style /etc/apache2/conf.d/alias, we create configuration files for each directory in /etc/apache2/sites-available/. Then we symlink it to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/.

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/music /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/.

Now we can easily disable modules and directories we don't need just by deleting the symlinks. No need to search for huge configuration files for the right rows to be commented out.

[BatteryCell]

Hey thanks a lot I've been looking for something like this for a while

Oh but when I installed it there wasnt a default musicindex.css or musicindex folder, I can make my own and I did, but I was just wondering if anyone had a default .css file they could post ?

[envis]

is this more like an automatically created index type of page that posts your music library automatically or is it more like a streaming component that would make apache stream audio any better?

i host somekind of "interactive radio station" already.. just wondering if that module could be of any use to me...

im a newbie in server admin ....

if it just builds an index from your music library, i've already sweated on a script that builds a whole freaking website from my audio libraby... but if it can somehow make apache transmit mp3 or ogg better... then i might need it!....

[ronlybonly]

Thanks for the HOWTO! I can't wait to try this out!

[robert@debian]

Thanks for this fabulous HowTo! This one helped me alot.

This is the most comfortable way to listen to my music @ work