Introduction
MyTunesRSS lets you listen to your music wherever you are. It provides a configuration interface and a web server which you run on your local host where all your music lives. After starting the server you can access your music through a nice web interface from all over the world using any web browser. You can even use devices like a Playstation Portable or the Nintento Wii to play your music.
MyTunesRSS offers multiple ways of listening to your music. You can simply play a single track in the browser or an associated music player. It depends on your system and browser settings whether the track is played in a browser plugin or an external application. You can also fetch M3U and XSPF playlists which play in a wide range of applications supporting this type, e.g. Windows Media Player, Apple Quicktime, VLC Player, WinAmp and many more. On the Playstation Portable for example you can subscribe to RSS feeds of any playlist and listen to your music this way. Subscribing to RSS feeds of playlists can also be a nice feature on your computer. Always stay up-to-date without recreating an M3U or XSPF playlist. Last but certainly not least there is a Flash player included in MyTunesRSS which lets you listen to your music directly in the browser. This is the way it works on the Nintendo Wii for example. So all you need is a simple web browser with Flash capabilities on the client side.
But there is even more than just listening to your music. You can use iTunes Music Libraries and watch folders as data sources for MyTunesRSS. Update the MyTunesRSS database automatically, create multiple user accounts for the web interface with different permissions. Create a restricted account for your friends which allow playback in the browser but don't offer a way to directly download the files. Use the transcoding support to convert AAC (MP4) files on-the-fly to MP3 files or downsample MP3 files for less bandwidth requirements. The conversion feature lets you play AAC files in the Flash player although it supports MP3 playback only. Upload new music to your server through the web interface, discover other servers running in the same network (e.g. campus networks), browse your music by album, artist and genre, search for music, create playlist in the web interface, create custom themes and language packs for the web interface and much more.
If theme creation is not enough or just not flexible enough for you, you can also create a whole new client using the remote API (XML-RPC or JSON-RPC). Just create your very own user interface and use the MyTunesRSS server in the background.
All URLs are encrypted with an instance specific key. This means that if you publish one address, you won't be able to hack into MyTunesRSS to get access to other files by guessing the correct address. Imagine you are creating your own music at home and you have this music in your MyTunesRSS library together with other music you bought. You want to share your home made music through an RSS feed with other people. Simply log into MyTunesRSS with your account and get the link to the RSS feed. Then publish this link. It contains your authentication information as well as the information of the RSS feed. But all this is well encrypted, so nobody will be able to use this information to get further access.