Free media server software for linux

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.

DeniX Server OS is an independent Linux based distribution built from scratch by Denis Salmanovich. They aim to offer a user-friendly full-featured server operating system, pre-configured, well structured and easy to work with, and filled with the latest stable versions of Linux apps.
Its easy to install and configure. Every package is downloaded from the authors source and compiled when installed.
Main features:
- Domain Controller
- ADSL/CABLE Router (PPPoE)
- Network Firewall
- Anti Virus Gateway
- Anti Spam Gateway
- Mail Server (local & external) + Web Mail
- Calendar Sharing Support
- Network File Server
- DHCP Server
- TFTP BOOT Server
- WINS Server
- FTP Server
- VPN Server
- DNS Server
- DDNS Server
- MySQL Server
- HTTP Apache Server
- Remote Backup Solutions
- Remote control and administration
- Print Queue Server
- Proxy Server

Streamnik Server project is an IPTV server based on the open codecs Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/Theora. It can stream a number of different channels and is optimized to run on leased (virtual) servers. The program schedule is defined by an SQL database table and can be changed at runtime.

Media Exchange is an MP3 Jukebox appliance. It allows you to:
- merge music collections
- Play music and control the player with a browser
- Organize your music
- Automatically tag music
- Remove double tracks automatically
- Download music directly from the artists
- Share music with your friends safely and easily
And Artists to:
- Distribute music to their fans directly

Darwin Calendar Server provides a CalDAV server.

The Darwin Calendar Server is a standards-compliant server that allows multiple users to collaboratively share calendaring information. It provides a shared location on the network to store schedules, and allows users to send each other and manage invitations.

In order to provide interoperability with multiple calendaring clients, the server implements the CalDAV protocol, which is an extension of WebDAV, which is in turn an extension of HTTP.

Poisson Media Recovery project can be used to retrieve slightly damaged files from CD-ROM media.

It sequentially mounts and umounts the device, and on each mount it tries to read as many new 512 byte sectors as possible.

I was able to use this tool to save some files from old CDs.

Raw Print Server project is a "raw" print server that makes it possible for a computer to act as a "Socket API" or "AppSocket" print server.
This software would not exist without Sam Rushings excellent asyncore module, nor would it exist without Steve Holdens excellent explanation of that module (in his book "Python Web Programming" from New Riders, a truly outstanding book that I cant recommend enough) from which I learned enough to write this server. Im also indebted to Guido van Rossum for Python itself, which has made my life SO much easier, and to Mark Hammond for the win32all modules which are essential parts of the Windows version of the print server.
This is version 0.1 of the Raw Print Server. There are no installation instructions to speak of; I plan to write an install script to assist with getting the software up and running, but for now its all manual.
You will need a working Python 2.x system to run the print server itself, and if you are installing on Windows youll need a working set of the win32all modules from Mark Hammond (which you really ought to have anyway). To run the GUI properties program, youll need a working PyGTK module set, and on Windows that means finding a compatible GTK+ runtime also.
Finding all of the above is left as an exercise for the reader.
Okay. If you are on a recent Linux system, or any of the BSD family, you should be able to install all of the above from your original installation media, or download them from the appropriate website for your distribution.
If you are running Windows, start by getting a recent Python build from www.python.org; follow the links from that site to the win32all downloads (currently somewhere on Sourceforge).
After that, go to www.pygtk.org and follow their links to the downloads you need for Windows. Note that as of this time (October 2005), the GTK libraries normally used for the Gimp dont work with PyGTK (despite notes on the PyGTK for Windows site saying that they do), at least, not on Win9x.
Get the runtime or development libraries referenced from the PyGTK for Windows site. If you already have the Gimp installed, uninstall the GTK+ libraries you got with it before installing the alternate runtime. My Gimp still works, so it must be okay, right?
Enhancements:
- close printer when done