PyMediaServer 0.6.0

PyMediaServer is a barebones UPnP-based Media Server for use with a Netgear MP101 Digital Music Player.
PyMediaServer currently:
- supports the Netgear MP101 and has not been tested with any other UPnP client devices
- Supports browsing MP3s (only MP3s at this point) via the UPnP ContentDirectory service, but only provides organization by directories (that is, it does not support an Artist category, Genre category, etc.)
- Supports ordering MP3s found in a given folder via track number if those track numbers are available via ID3v2
- Supports playing MP3s via RTSP and RTP/UDP to the MP101
Development is currently in progress to add support for organization by Artist, Genre, and Alblum. Additional features Id like to include are:
- Playlist support
- Internet Radio support
- PyGTK Interface
- Improved Installer
- WMA support
- Additional Media Player support
Installing and Running
The installation process at the moment is straightforward, though there are some noted issues with it.
In a nutshell I recommend downloading the source to /usr/src or /usr/local/src and then running install.sh in the pymediaserver directory. This merely creates a link from /usr/bin/pymediaserver to the MediaServer.py file. You will have to edit install.sh if you want the link created in a different bin directory.
Running should be straightforward:
pymediaserver /path/to/mp3s/ to load a new set of content
Note that /path/to/mp3s/ is an absolute path and should be readable by the user from which pymediaserver is launched (robustness isnt supported yet).
If no arguments are presented to pymediaserver it will try to load a stored dictionary in $HOME/.pymediaserver/. If one doesnt exist it will fail (probably with a nasty traceback).
Enhancements:
- The non-graphical version no longer requires GTK+ or X in any fashion, allowing it to be started as a daemon.
- The Media Directory is now read directly from the Amarok database if available using a SQLite interface.
- Error handling when encountering malformed ID3 tags was improved along with the handling of character encoding of MP3 titles.