wymypy

(Web Y Music Y Player in pYthon)

wymypy is a standalone webserver music player frontend for the marvellous MPD (The music player daemon). It's "like" phpmp2, but no needs of apache/php ! You only need to have python2.4 and MPD, of course ;-) ! It's a web based client powered with ajax and its own multithreaded httpserver in python, under the GPL2 licence.

FEATURES

• Stand alone web server (no need another httpd)
• don't require anything except standard python and MPD
• ajax powered, for speed !
• ultra light (74ko of code)
• ability to protect the web access
• standard mpd features : browse library, playlists, search, shuffle, seekbar ...
• WSGI compliant
• Easy install (egg)
• Direct links to "all music guide", lastfm and lyrics

TODO

• enhance the plugins
• more functions/plugins (view lyrics?, cover?, info ?)
• better rendering

INSTALL

• You'll need easy_install. It should be already installed in current distributions, under the setuptools library.
• open a console and run "easy_install wymypy"
• now, you can run wymypy by launching "wymypy"
• point your browser to http://localhost:8080 ... and play
• to learn more : run "wymypy -h"
• to configure : edit your ~/.wymypy file

CHANGELOG

• 1.2 (03/02/07) : Now, it's a python egg

  • better ajax request (optimized)
  • display tags format (configurable)
  • relayout/refactoring of the code (plugins,libs)
  • EGG install
  • direct links to amg, lastfm, lyrics
  • better look (black skin)
  • config file ~/.wymypy

• 1.1 (09/01/07) : (Download wymypy 1.1 tar.gz)

  • ability to configure mpd host
  • python2.4 aware now
  • commandline usage
  • protect web access
  • seekbar

• 1.0 (08/01/07) : first public version

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