Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection

[shrikant]

This sounds a LOT like zmusic (which I use currently) by Jason Donenfeld: http://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng/about/

(..which is also powered by Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Backbone.js etc.)

[magic_haze]

So... why not Subsonic? It's open source as well, seems a lot more mature, has a rest api, tons of apps, and a spiffy new HTML5 player that's quite good.

* Subsonic.org seems to be down, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/ instead.

[vidarh]

I suspect Java would make at least some of us steer clear. Thinking as purely a user, Subsonic looks great. As a developer that wants to hack around on the code handling my music library for fun, I personally wouldn't want the aggravation as I really can't stand Java.

[StavrosK]

Can I use it as an alternative to Google Music? I.e. can I set it to download a playlist to my phone when I come home?

[chintan]

OT: As per the Hindu calendar, yesterday was Shiva's birthday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_Shivaratri

Great timing!

[sushantsharma]

Shivratri is not the birthday of Lord Shiva. It is a day celebrated in reverence of Lord Shiva.

[cllns]

This seems incredible. I've been wanting something like this for a while, and figured I'd have to make it myself.

I'll definitely be checking this out.

[foxbarrington]

Ha, actually did spend time making something like this for myself. I prefer to organize music by folder though, so that's how Tailgate does it:

https://github.com/davidguttman/tailgate

[andybak]

A Subsonic-compatible wrapper for the API would instantly add compatibility with a large number of clients. Same for DLNA (spit).

I'm a big Subsonic fan for a couple of reasons:

1. Remote control - I can make the server play the track remotely

2. Configurable offline cache on my phone - I set a large cache size (say 20gb) and use the player normally. Next time I'm offline I've still got access to the last 20gb of music I played.

I'm looking for a Subsonic alternative though as I'd like to use an Android TV stick as my server/media center and getting Java running on that will be a pain and probably involve running a full Linux side-by-side. And I'm not even sure if it's going to be possible to run Subsonic server alongside Android effectively.

A closing thought. Why are these things needed when we have DLNA/UPnP? Mainly because DLNA apps are uniformally slow and lack essential features. It's stunning how much time and money large companies have spent on DLNA and produced something so horrible.

[terryb100]

Nice! I've also been thinking about something like this for my photos. I have a ton of photos littered in a pics folder. Would love an API would I could query on EXIF data.

[icebraining]

Try a semantic desktop app. If I'm not mistaken, Tracker[1] can index EXIF tags (as well as other metadata formats) and it exposes a SPARQL[2] endpoint that you can query.

[1]: http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL

[aidos]

I've also been thinking the same thing recently. I have iPhoto but it sucks for a) big collections and b) sharing. For example, locally you can browse a collection on another local machine but it sends full res photos across the wire so it's completely unusable.

[carlob]

I'd love to try and install this on my nas4free installation. If anyone has tried and wants to chime in…

[factorialboy]

My next project will be `Jesus`.

[Argorak]

You are late: https://rubygems.org/gems/jesus

"A web interface for god to speak with mankind"

https://rubygems.org/gems/god

[upthedale]

The REST API looks like its halfway to being an OData one. Why reinvent the wheel and not go the whole hog?

[teeboy]

Interestingly it was Shivratri yesterday for Indians - for Shiva, the destroyer God of Hinduism.

[snambi]

Sounds good. Would like to try.

[rjim86]

that would be me .. i mean thats my name :P