Euterpe is a self-hosted streaming service for music. It was formerly known as “HTTPMS (HTTP Media Server)”.
It provides a way to listen to your music library from anywhere. Once set up you only need a web browser. Think of it as your own Spotify service over which you have full control. Euterpe will let you browse through and listen to your music over HTTP(s). There’s also a GTK+ standalone player and a Rhythmbox plugin available if you prefer not using the Web UI.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Simple. It is a single small binary! There is no need to deal with web server extensions for dynamic languages, running databases or copying source files around
- Fast. A typical response time on an old mediocre computer is 26ms for a fairly large collection.
- Very small footprint so it could easily co-exist with many other services on the same machine.
- Supports the most common audio formats such as mp3, oga, ogg, wav, flac, opus, web and m4a audio formats.
- Built-in fast and simple Web UI so that you can play your music on every device.
- Media and UI could be served over HTTP(S) natively without the need for other software.
- User authentication (HTTP Basic, query token, Bearer token).
- Media artwork from local files or automatically downloaded from the Cover Art Archive.
- Artist images could be downloaded automatically from Discogs.
- Search by track name, artist or album.
- Download whole album in a zip file with one click.
- Controllable via media keys in OSX with the help of BeardedSpice.
- Extensible via stable API.
- Multiple clients and player plugins.
- Uses jplayer to play your music on really old browsers.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: listen-to-euterpe.eu
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Doychin Atanasov
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Euterpe is written in Go and JavaScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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