Beatstream is your own music streaming service.

Beatstream is a free, self-hosted, web-based media server for listening to music from your computer using a web browser. You only need to install Beatstream on your computer and set up the access to it. Beatstream is known to run & sometimes actually play music on Google Chrome, Firefox, iPad and iPhone.

(demo offline temporarily)

P.S. To take full use of Beatstream, you should have a computer running Beatstream 24/7.

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Installation #

Beatstream currently runs on Ruby on Rails and its installation is a lengthy and difficult process. We are working on making it better, but that won't happen until Beatstream itself is running better. Nevertheless, if you are a bad enough dude, here it is:

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Windows Mac Ubuntu/other

Install Ruby via RubyInstaller. Remember to check the "Add Ruby executables to your PATH" checkbox while installing.

Then install Bundler:

gem install bundler

After that, clone Beatsream using Git:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/Darep/Beatstream.git

Set-up Beatstream by doing this stuff in command prompt (cmd):

cd Beatstream
bundle install
rake db:migrate
copy config/initializers/music_paths.rb.sample config/initializers/music_paths.rb
notepad config/initializers/music_paths.rb
-> Change 'music_path'
bundle exec rails console
-> User.create(:username => 'your_name', :email => 'your_email@example.com', :password => 'asdf', :password_confirmation => 'asdf')
-> exit
bundle exec rails server -d

First, you need to have Git, Ruby (1.8.7 or newer), RubyGems and sqlite3 development headers installed. All of these can be installed by installing Xcode and the command-line tools.

Then install Bundler:

$ sudo gem install bundler

When you're set, clone Beatsream using Git:

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/Darep/Beatstream.git

Set-up Beatstream by doing this stuff in terminal:

$ cd Beatstream
$ bundle install
$ rake db:migrate
$ cp config/initializers/music_paths.rb.sample config/initializers/music_paths.rb
$ nano config/initializers/music_paths.rb
-> Change 'music_path'
$ bundle exec rails console
-> User.create(:username => 'your_name', :email => 'your_email@example.com', :password => 'asdf', :password_confirmation => 'asdf')
-> exit
$ bundle exec rails server -d

Install Git, Ruby (1.8.7 or newer), RubyGems, libsqlite3-dev and Bundler:

$ sudo apt-get install git ruby1.8-full rubygems libsqlite3-dev
$ sudo gem install bundler

When you're set, clone Beatsream using Git:

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/Darep/Beatstream.git

Set-up Beatstream by doing this stuff in terminal:

$ cd Beatstream
$ bundle install
$ rake db:migrate
$ cp config/initializers/music_paths.rb.sample config/initializers/music_paths.rb
$ nano config/initializers/music_paths.rb
-> Change 'music_path'
$ bundle exec rails console
-> User.create(:username => 'your_name', :email => 'your_email@example.com', :password => 'asdf', :password_confirmation => 'asdf')
-> exit
$ bundle exec rails server -d

You have been warned! ;)

Current quirks #

Last.fm: You need to manually go to https://<your_server>/settings and do the authentication there.
Media Library: Opens a blank page after refresh is done. Just go back, and start listening :)
Flash (Firefox): Beatstream's Flash plugin (SoundManager2) crashes sometimes. Restart browser / Flash.
UTF-8: Sometimes song info looks garbled. Sometimes Beastream can't play songs with funny characters in filenames or paths.
Endlessly spinning loader: You prorably have a Flash block of some kind. Allow Beatstream to use Flash.

Future plans

Beatstream is a work in progress and currently in alpha. Here's the current roadmap for Beatstream:

Separate back-end and front-end
UI tweaks all-around (media library refresh, preloader)
Working settings UI
Front-end regression & unit tests
Playlists
REST API with authentication

You can check the status of the project at Github.

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software with only one restriction: selling of the Software, or software and associated documentation files derived from it (the "Derived software"), is only permitted with the permission of the copyright owner.