Zeya is a music server that streams your music collection to any computer, phone, television, picture frame, or refrigerator that has a current-generation web browser. The client part uses the <audio> tag in the HTML5 draft spec, so it runs right in the browser— without Flash or Silverlight and without the need to install any extra software at the client.
I'm pleased to announce the 0.2 release of Zeya.
New since Zeya 0.1:
- Support for Internet Explorer (via Google's Chrome Frame plugin). IE joins Firefox and Chrome in the list of supported browsers.
- A new console frontend (more below)
- Numerous UI improvements, both substantive and cosmetic
- A unit test suite
There are many bug fixes, the most notable being:
- Filenames with non-ASCII characters can be read and served correctly.
- Files that are not in a decodable format are hidden entirely from the user.
- Zeya should actually work in Python 2.5 as advertised.
Known issues:
- 64-bit GNU/Linux builds of the Google Chrome dev channel are undergoing some codec turbulence. Use either the 64-bit Chromium builds or 32-bit builds of Chrome or Chromium instead.
The new console frontend, zeyaclient.py, is a simple (read: primitive) app that connects to a Zeya server and prompts for songs to play. This is handy if you are using a computer that doesn't have a supported web browser (but on which you can run Python scripts). The Sugar OS on the XO-1 is one such setup, so I'm now using my XO, which is connected to a hi-fi set, as a jukebox for my living room.
I've also been using Zeya more frequently to listen to music (from my home computer) at work. It's much more satisfying than internet radio.
Visit http://web.psung.name/zeya/ for more information, or read previous blog posts on Zeya.
