BrowseM

This software dates from 2004/5, so most of it was written before I started university. Please don’t judge me too harshly! Having said that, it still works.

A simple, web-based, media browser

Introduction

BrowseM provides a very basic but convenient and simple web interface for browsing your media (music, video) collection. It produces playlists of tracks stored in the same directory, shows cover art (from, for instance, CDs) and can be used as part of a media server. Files are stored on the server, and can be streamed from the server if your media player supports this.

Requirements

PHP, I have tested BrowseM with version 4.3 and version 5.2, earlier versions probably work too.
Apache web server, I’ve tested with Apache 2, but other versions should work.

Download, installation and configuration

Download the sources here: BrowseM.tgz, 31 KiB.

Installation for GNU users running Apache:

You need a working Apache installation. See The Apache HTTP Server Project if you need help setting this up.

Edit the Apache configuration file, usually /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or similar. Add these lines at the end of the file.

	ServerName music
	ServerAlias music.*
	DocumentRoot /home/matt/music
	<Location /browse>
		SetHandler php5-script
	</Location>

	<Directory /home/matt/music>
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

Extract the program to the appropriate location. For instance:

cd /home/matt/music/
wget http://matt.blissett.me.uk/apps/BrowseM/BrowseM.tgz
tar zxvf BrowseM.tgz
ln -s __BrowseM/index.php __BrowseM/favicon.ico .
ln -s __BrowseM/_BrowseM browse

Go to http://localhost/ in a web browser.

Previous releases

All releases are licensed under the GPL.

BrowseM-0.1.5.tgz 2009-05-17
BrowseM-0.1.4.tgz 2007-08-11
BrowseM-0.1.3.tgz 2005-03-13
BrowseM-0.1.2.tgz 2004-12-29
BrowseM-0.1.1.tgz 2004-09-30
BrowseM-0.1.0.tgz 2004-06-05