Last Updated on July 13, 2021
Sockso is a personal music server for everyone. It is a cross platform music server which requires no installation.
The web-based Graphical User Interface is totally skinnable and the built-in player supports MP3, WMA, OGG, and FLAC files. Users can also generate .M3U and .PLS files on-the-fly for playback on their favorite audio app.
It is designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some music files can get their friends listening to their music across the Internet in minutes.
Features include:
- Supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac, AAC and WMA.
- Easy web-interface.
- Online flash music players, playlists, search, etc.
- Download single tracks, or entire albums/artists or playlists.
- Statistics like most played, recently popular, etc.
- Customizable/skinnable web interface.
- User and site playlists.
- Gui-less console mode for running on servers.
- User account control, with playlists.
- Uploads from users.
- Album art for artists and albums.
- Re-encoding of output streams to save bandwidth if needed.
- Cover Flow style artwork view.
- Last.fm related artist and scrobble log integration.
- Multi-format access logs.
- SSL support.
- Folder browsing view.
- Simple setup.
- Translations: Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
Website: sockso.pu-gh.com
Support: Manual
Developer: Rod Naph
License: GNU GPL v2
Sockso is written in Java and JavaScript. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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