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diff --git a/network/CherryMusic/README b/network/CherryMusic/README index 0602f69e20..49379cdadd 100644 --- a/network/CherryMusic/README +++ b/network/CherryMusic/README @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ CherryMusic is a music streaming server based on CherryPy and jPlayer. -It plays the music inside your PC, smartphone, tablet, toaster or whatever -device has a HTML5 compliant browser installed. +It can be run remotely or on a single computer and is designed to handle +huge music libraries of 3 TB and more; it also works well with small +collections. In contrast to MPD, Icecast and the like, CherryMusic allows +multiple users to log in via HTTP/HTTPS using a web browser, browse and +search the music database, manage playlists and stream music to the browser. -current features: - - - stream your music inside the browser (locally or remote) - - browse and search your music - - completely AJAX based (no page reloads on click, therefore fast) - - create and share playlists - - multiple user authentication - - HTTPS support - - automatic album cover art fetching +The CherryMusic server runs on Linux, Windows and OS X, as long as Python +and SQLite are available. To use the web client, any device with a modern +browser will do. Optional dependencies are: - Live transcoding: lame, flac, faad2 - ID3-Tag reading: stagger (not available for repo) - For special character search terms: Unidecode - HTTPS support in Python 2: pyOpenSSL (in Python 3 it works out of the box) + Live transcoding: lame, vorbis-tools, flac, faad2, mpg123, opus-tools or ffmpeg (which +replaces the aforementioned codecs plus adds WMA decoding) + Automatic resizing of displayed cover art: imagemagick + For special character search terms: python-unidecode + For the GTK system tray icon: python-gobject + HTTPS support in Python 2: pyOpenSSL (in Python 3 it works out of the box) |