Sockso – personal music host server

Last Updated on September 19, 2024

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: github.com/rodnaph/sockso
Support:
Developer: Rod Naph
License: GNU GPL v2

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