About:
mod_mp3 turns the Apache Web server into an MP3 or Ogg streaming server. It can play from a list of files, either in order or randomly. It can also be used to cache MP3s into memory and have the server operate entirely from memory. It has an XML-RPC interface for you to write interfaces around and supports retrieving information via XML/RSS.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release adds support for dispatchers to save content as well as meta data. MySQL dispatch has been updated to store content, and to use 4.1's binary protocol. Support for RSS2 and podcast style elements in RSS2 feeds has been added. A Debian issue with the installer has been fixed.

Author:
Brian Aker [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://tangent.org/index.pl?node=mod_mp3
Tar/GZ:
http://download.tangent.org/mod_mp3-1.1.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://tangent.org/index.pl?node_id=496
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.tangent.org/
Bug tracker:
http://bugs.tangent.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.tangent.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[License]

OSI Approved :: BSD License (original), The Apache License

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Development	0.40	18-Jun-2003	BSD License (original)
Unstable	1.1	06-Jun-2005	The Apache License

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.1	Major feature enhancements	06-Jun-2005 18:12
1.0	Major feature enhancements	07-Feb-2005 10:26

 Comments

[»] compiling with Apachetoolbox?
by Neil Watson - Dec 31st 2001 09:14:15

Has anyone had any luck compiling mod_mp3 with apachetoolbox? For me toolbox runs fine but when I start the make for apache:

modules.o(.data+0x8): undefined reference to `mp3_module'
modules.o(.data+0x1c): undefined reference to `mp3_module'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [target_static] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Apachetoolbox-1.5.49/apache_1.3.22/src'
make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Apachetoolbox-1.5.49/apache_1.3.22'
make: *** [build] Error 2

Any suggestions?

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[»] Re: compiling with Apachetoolbox?
by thinair - Aug 1st 2002 06:42:20


> Has anyone had any luck compiling
> mod_mp3 with
> apachetoolbox? For me toolbox runs fine
> but when I
> start the make for apache:
>
> modules.o(.data+0x8): undefined
> reference to
> `mp3_module'
> modules.o(.data+0x1c): undefined
> reference to
> `mp3_module'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [target_static] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/Apachetoolbox-1.5.49/apache_1.3.22/src'
> make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/Apachetoolbox-1.5.49/apache_1.3.22'
> make: *** [build] Error 2
>
> Any suggestions?
>

What you should do is active DSO mechanism, at the install menu of Apachetoolbox and desactive mp3_module. You install Apachetoolbox without mp3_module... and then after make;make install in the apache_1.3.x directory. Go in src/mod_mp3-03x and type ./configure; make ; make install

It should work now...


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[»] Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Loopus - Apr 8th 2001 14:52:08

It's the standard fare for Brian Aker - sounds cool, maybe it works for him, but he's only partially described the work. If you install this, be prepared to overcome a lot of things that aren't described for you. Be ready to waste countless hours until you realize, for example, that an implicit dependency exists between two parameters, or that you need to have some unnamed file in a specific directory.

Brian almost does good engineering.

--
When there are 27 version of the same thing (yes, yours really is better only because you wrote it in perl) how "fresh" is the "meat"?

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[»] Re: Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Wiggins - Apr 9th 2001 09:47:52


> It's the standard fare for Brian Aker -
> sounds cool, maybe it works for him, but
> he's only partially described the work.
> If you install this, be prepared to
> overcome a lot of things that aren't
> described for you. Be ready to waste
> countless hours until you realize, for
> example, that an implicit dependency
> exists between two parameters, or that
> you need to have some unnamed file in a
> specific directory.
>
> Brian almost does good engineering.
And where exactly is your offering on this
front??? "Brian almost does good engineering."
Well at least he does some. If you are such an
expert then submit some patches, start your own
project and make it better, faster, cleaner, and
more stable.

Freshmeat's instructions: "Feel free to share
your opinions, but remember to keep the
discussions calm; don't flame and don't insult
others."




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[»] Re: Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Wiggins - Apr 9th 2001 10:53:04

And now having posted my above comment, and then taking roughly 45 minutes to read the documentation, install the module, recompile apache, and setup the config I had a streamer up and running. I have never looked into setting up a streamer nor really have a desire to keep it going, but one of my colleagues does and he was impressed. This may have been the straw that causes his switch from windows to linux too, bravo again Brian. Now lets patch the hell out of this thing to make it capture the market share.

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[»] Re: Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Marv - Apr 10th 2001 09:43:40

I made nearly the opposite experience. Did not even read the manual, used Apache's DSO mechanism (after fixing paths for apxs and apachectl in the Makefile). Simply "make"d and "make install"ed. Installation was for me a piece of cake.
And it works like a charm.
The only thing I miss is the ChangeLog on the web site.

Anyway, Brian, excellent work , thanx very much! How exactly are the MD5 sums for the song names are built ? When doing an "echo "Some_Song.mp3|md5sum", I get a different md5sum than mod_mp3 reports ... (I was working on a sort of interface) Thanks for your cool mod! Marv

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[»] Re: Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Scott Kveton - May 2nd 2001 12:45:38


> How exactly are the MD5 sums for the
> song names are built ? When doing an
> "echo "Some_Song.mp3|md5sum", I get a
> different md5sum than mod_mp3 reports

MD5 is generated from the complete path, not just the file name. So it should generate from something like:

/data/music/Some_song.mp3 instead of just Some_song.mp3

Also, for the song to be streamed it must reside in the directory specified by:

MP3 "/data/music"

in your httpd.conf.

Hope this helps,

Scott :-)

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[»] Re: Standard Aker-fare: Nearly descriptive
by Spooky Ghost - Feb 14th 2002 07:00:00


>
> % How exactly are the MD5 sums for the
> % song names are built ? When doing an
> % "echo "Some_Song.mp3|md5sum", I get a
> % different md5sum than mod_mp3 reports
>
> MD5 is generated from the complete
> path, not just the file name. So it
> should generate from something like:
>
> /data/music/Some_song.mp3 instead of
> just Some_song.mp3
If you're doing this in a shell script you need to use echo -n to avoid the newline being included in the md5sum. Had me confused for a while that one.

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