Zina is not Andromeda

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Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. It can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke/Xoops/Mambo/Drupal/e107 module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.

STATUS: ACTIVE It is updated frequently fairly often.

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ScreenshotFeatures:

  • MP3 / OGG / WAV / WMA / Real Audio streaming
  • Custom and "Session" Playlists
  • RSS/Podcasts (as of v0.12.03)
  • Random, non-repeating playlists by albums or songs
  • "Skip Track:" Easily exclude songs from albums and random playlists
  • Searching
  • Simple Installation (no database)
  • Easy to configure:(uses regular text and graphic files for customization)
  • Can be used as a Postnuke, PHPNuke, Xoops module or MamboServer component. Drupal, phpWebsite and e107, DragonflyCMS supported as of v0.12.x.
  • Has been installed on Synology NAS. See wiki instructions (thanks to Robin Burnikell)
  • Can downsample mp3s on the fly (with external encoder like LAME)
  • Can dynamically resize images if your version of PHP (with GD library) supports it.
  • Localization support: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, French, Danish, Bulgarian, Croation, Hebrew, Basque, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Swedish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Catalan, Brazilian, Albanian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Kannada, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese, Estonian, Slovenian, Polish.
  • Many of the features of Andromeda (at least the last time I looked in, um, 2003)
  • Many other features (see Changelog)
  • Released under GNU General Public License

Requirements:

  • PHP 4.1.x on the Apache web server (IIS is not supported, although it may work, see here).
  • Any web browser that supports JavaScript and CSS.
  • An media player (Winamp, xmms, mpg123, etc.) that supports .m3u or .asx playlists.

Highly Recommended: Album Grabber (gets album covers from allmusic.com)

Tested (personally):

  • Linux: Apache 1.3.x / php4.3.2 (remotely) [Dual PIII 600 512M]
  • Windows 2000: Apache 1.3.x / php4.2.3 (locally) [P4 2.4G 512M]
  • Linux/Windows: Apache 2.0.50 / php4.3.9
  • Browsers: Mozilla 1.0 / IE5
  • MP3s: ~ 450 artists / ~ 1,200 titles / ~ 15,000 songs (locally)
  • Postnuke: .71x-.75x / PHPNuke 6.0/7.4 / Mambo 4.5.1 / Xoops 2.0.7 / Drupal 4.6.3 / phpWebsite 0.10.2

Reported working on:

  • Mac OSX w/ Apache
  • Windows 2003, IIS6, PHP 4.3.2
  • Windows XP, Apache 2.x, PHP 4.x
  • OS/2 and eCS
  • NetBSD 1.6.1, Apache 1.3.29, PHP 4.3.4 (Cobalt Qube2)
  • Solaris 10 / Sun Java Server 6.1 / PHP 4.3.6
  • FreeBSD 5.3, Apache-1.3.31, mod_php4-4.3.8, php4-extensions-1.0

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