xplay

A simple media server that searches multimedia files from a directory, parses their metadata, generates xspf playlist as index and serves audio/video over http/https.

Supported file formats: mp3, flac, ogg, mp4, mkv. Metadata parsing currently does not support mkv.

This program:

• Traverses directories recursively by default. Can be disabled by --no-recursive option
• Does not follow symbolic links found in directories
• Excludes files starting with a period (hidden files in linux)

Usage

Start http media server with /play.xspf as index:

./xplay -b $bind_ipaddr -p $bind_port -d ./music

Use -w to generate and save xspf to file and exit. -b and -p options will be ignored:

./xplay -d . -w > playlist.xspf

Metadata parsing can become slow when handling a large number of multimedia files. Use --no-tag option to disable metadata/tag parsing if you do not need metadata in xspf playlists.

To secure the media server, activate https with --cert --key and set up http basic authentication with --password. Default username "xplay" can be changed via --username:

./xplay -b $bind_ipaddr -p $bind_port -d ./music\
    --username $username --password $password\
    --cert $cert_path --key $certkey_path

Client

Media players with http and xspf support (like VLC) can be used as clients.

vlc http://$ip:$port/play.xspf

With https and http basic auth:

vlc https://$username:$password@$ip:$port/play.xspf