music website software?

[jeff robertson]

I am thinking of developing some open source PHP (or possibly Perl) application that musicians who own websites can use to organize their mp3s. What I'm thinking of is something like:

1. you just upload or FTP your songs and..
2. the software automatically generates lists of albums and songs on each album by looking at the tags in the mp3s
3. generates "stream all" m3u files for each album and for your whole catalog
4. generates podcast feed(s)
5. gives you a web form to add liner notes and lyrics and any other info that doesn't come from the tag

Again, I am not planning to start a hosting service. Lord no. I am talking about a script that you run on your webhost to do all that for you. Sound useful?

Also let me know if there is already something like this. Cause if there is, I'll just use it myself. It's very hard to google for mp3 organizing software without getting tons of hits for things that just organize your files on your local desktop, so I'm hoping that this exists and I just can't find it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I've got some parts of this kinda sorta working.

Stream all songs on the site: http://www.jeff-robertson.com/flvxx/playlist/m3u.cgi
Flash player for all songs: http://www.jeff-robertson.com/flvxxplayer.html (using http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/)
Podcast: http://www.jeff-robertson.com/flvxx/pla ... odcast.cgi

All of these are completely "live", if I upload a new song via FTP they'll pick it up. The coding is not very efficient and should probably do something like scanning for new songs at intervals rather than every time someone hits the URL.

Also forgot to mention that I am considering using this as an excuse to transition my programming skills from Perl to PHP. So far everything has been Perl because the goal has been to just get shit working rather than learn a whole nother language.

[Project-D]

I think that sounds pretty useful, sort of like a photoblog for music. I think for me the automatic list generation would be the most useful. If you could dynamically generate a simple web page for each album, say with a photo, I think that would be useful for a lot of people. Nothing fancy, just a list and a picture, kind of like a blog page. I reckon you don't want to get too much into "page creation", but it would be cool to do that. It's probably also not your goal, but if you could integrate this into a Wordpress plugin it would be awesome, and I would definitely use it. Right now I basically html code my song list, and use Wimpy to create a little "play now" type of list. I figure some people might want to download, others might want to play the song without being taken away from the page.

Here's an example: http://dproject.info/blog/index.php/music/fawm/

It's inelegant, I know, and writing this made me wonder why I didn't just embed a Wimpy player with a scrolling list. WP's handling of embedded HTML isn't always kosher though, so maybe that's why, I'll go try it. Anyway with more people using WP as a CMS, it might worth thinking about doing something like that.

[roymond]

Sounds like fun, tying those bits together, you're almost there.
Then, extract the lyric and album art from the MP3, where they should be anyway