Dinosaurs will slowly die.
Please read the LICENSE file distributed with this software.
- An API to your music.
- A music player.
- A music collection organizer.
If you want Shiva to automatically fetch artists' images from Last.FM while indexing you are going to need an API key. You can get one at http://www.last.fm/api/account/create
This makes the whole indexing slower because issues a request on a per-album and per-artist basis, but does a lot of work automatically for you.
- Get the source:
$ git clone https://github.com/tooxie/shiva-server.git $ cd shiva-server
- Install dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.pip
- Rename shiva/config/local.py.example to local.py:
$ cp shiva/config/local.py.example shiva/config/local.py
- Edit it and configure the directories to scan for music.
- See Scanning directories for more info.
- Add shiva to the PYTHONPATH:
$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`
- Create the database:
$ python -c "from shiva.app import db; db.create_all()"
- Run the indexer:
$ python shiva/indexer.py
- Run the server:
$ python shiva/app.py
- Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/<resource> (See Resources)
Usually is a good idea to use virtualenv to keep each project isolated and avoid dependency conflicts. To do so you should follow the following steps after cloning the source and before installing the requirements:
- Create the virtual environment:
$ virtualenv venv
- Activate it:
$ source ./venv/bin/activate
Then continue with the installation process as described previously.
The indexer receives the following command line arguments.
- --lastfm
- --nometadata
If you set the --lastfm flag Shiva will retrieve artist and album images from Last.FM, but for this to work you need to get an API key (See Prerequisites) and include it in your local.py config file.
The --nometadata option saves dummy tracks with only path information, ignoring the file's metadata. This means that album and artists will not be saved.
If both flags are set, --nometadata will take precedence and --lastfm will be ignored.
To tell Shiva which directories to scan for music, you will have to configure your shiva/config/local.py file. There you will find a MEDIA_DIRS option where you need to supply MediaDir objects.
This object allows for media configuration. By instantiating a MediaDir class you can tell Shiva where to look for the media files and how to serve those files. It's possible to configure the system to look for files on a directory and serve those files through a different server.
MediaDir(root='/srv/http', dirs=('/music', '/songs),
url='http://localhost:8080/')
Given that configuration Shiva will scan the directories /srv/http/music and /srv/http/songs for media files, but they will be served through http://localhost:8080/music/ and http://localhost:8080/songs/
If just a dir is provided Shiva will serve it through the same instance. This is NOT recommended, but is useful for developing.
MediaDir('/home/fatmike/music')
For more information, check the source of shiva/media.py.
A web-based front-end built as a single page application using HTML5 technologies. It includes its own test web server so you need not to install one.
Or you can also build your own client and put your own ideas into practice. I encourage you to do so. Build your own music player that meets your exact needs.
Feel free to issue PRs if you need new functionality in Shiva.
You have the following resources available:
- /artists
- /artist/<int:artist_id>
- /artist/<int:artist_id>/shows
- /albums
- /album/<int:album_id>
- /tracks
- /track/<int:track_id>
- /track/<int:track_id>/lyrics
Example request/response:
GET /artist/3
{
"name": "Eterna Inocencia",
"image": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8339787/Eterna+Inocencia+Eterna.jpg",
"uri": "/artist/3",
"slug": "eterna-inocencia",
"download_uri": "/artist/3/download",
"id": 3
}
- download_uri: The URI to download this artist's tracks. (NOT IMPLEMENTED)
- id: The object's ID.
- image: Link to a photo. (Provided by last.fm)
- name: Artist's name.
- slug: A slug of the artist's name.
- uri: The URI of this resource's instance.
Information provided by BandsInTown. This is the only resource that is not cached in the local database given to it's dynamic nature.
Example request/response:
GET /artist/1/shows
[
{
"other_artists": [
{
"mbid": "5c210861-2ce2-4be3-9307-bbcfc361cc01",
"facebook_tour_dates_url": "http://bnds.in/kVwY1Y",
"image_url": "http://www.bandsintown.com/Pennywise/photo/medium.jpg",
"name": "Pennywise",
}
],
"artists": [
{
"id": 1,
"uri": "/artist/1"
}
],
"tickets_left": true,
"title": "Lagwagon @ Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Canada",
"venue": {
"latitude": "49.2805760",
"name": "Commodore Ballroom",
"longitude": "-123.1207430"
},
"id": "6041814",
"datetime": "Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:00:00 -0000"
}
]
- other_artists: A list with artists that are not in Shiva's database.
- mbid: MusicBrainz.com ID.
- facebook_tour_dates_url: URI to BandsInTown's Facebook app for this artist.
- image_url: URI to an image of the artist.
- name: Name of the artist.
- artists: A list of artist resources.
- tickets_left: A boolean representing the availability (or not) of tickets for the concert.
- title: The title of the event.
- venue: A structure identifying the venue where the event takes place.
- latitude: Venue's latitude.
- name: Venue's name.
- longitude: Venue's longitude.
- id: BandsInTown's ID for this event.
- datetime: String representation of the date and time of the show.
The Shows resource accepts, optionally, 2 pairs of parameters:
- latitude and longitude.
- country and city.
By providing one of this two pairs you can filter down the result list only to a city. If only one of the pair is provided (e.g., only city) will be ignored, and if both pairs are provided, the coordinates will take precedence.
Example request/response:
GET /album/9
{
"artists": [
{
"id": 2,
"uri": "/artist/2"
},
{
"id": 5,
"uri": "/artist/5"
}
],
"download_uri": "/album/9/download",
"name": "NOFX & Rancid - BYO Split Series (Vol. III)",
"year": 2002,
"uri": "/album/9",
"cover": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/72986694.jpg",
"id": 9,
"slug": "nofx-rancid-byo-split-series-vol-iii"
}
- artists: A list of the artists involved in that record.
- cover: A link to an image of the album's cover. (Provided by last.fm)
- download_uri: The URI to download this album. (NOT IMPLEMENTED)
- id: The object's ID.
- name: The album's name.
- slug: A slug of the album's name.
- uri: The URI of this resource's instance.
- year: The release year of the album.
The album list accepts an artist parameter in which case will filter the list of albums only to those corresponding to that artist.
Example request/response:
GET /albums/?artist=7
[
{
"artists": [
{
"id": 7,
"uri": "/artist/7"
}
],
"download_uri": "/album/12/download",
"name": "Anesthesia",
"year": 1995,
"uri": "/album/12",
"cover": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/3489534.jpg",
"id": 12,
"slug": "anesthesia"
},
{
"artists": [
{
"id": 7,
"uri": "/artist/7"
}
],
"download_uri": "/album/27/download",
"name": "Kum Kum",
"year": 1996,
"uri": "/album/27",
"cover": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/62372889.jpg",
"id": 27,
"slug": "kum-kum"
}
]
Example request/response:
GET /track/484
{
"number": 4,
"bitrate": 128,
"slug": "dinosaurs-will-die",
"album": {
"id": 35,
"uri": "/album/35"
},
"title": "Dinosaurs Will Die",
"artist": {
"id": 2,
"uri": "/artist/2"
},
"uri": "/track/510",
"id": 510,
"length": 180,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:8080/nofx-pump_up_the_valuum/04. Dinosaurs Will Die.mp3"
}
- album: The album to which this track belongs.
- bitrate: In MP3s this value is directly proportional to the sound quality.
- id: The object's ID.
- length: The length in seconds of the track.
- number: The ordinal number of this track with respect to this album.
- slug: A slug of the track's title.
- title: The title of the track.
- uri: The URI of this resource's instance.
- stream_uri: The URI to access the file, according to the MEDIA_DIRS setting.
The track listing accepts 1 of 2 possible parameters to filter down the list only to those tracks corresponding to a given album or artist.
Example request/response:
GET /tracks?artist=16
[
{
"number": 1,
"bitrate": 196,
"slug": "pay-cheque-heritage-ii",
"album": {
"id": 36,
"uri": "/album/36"
},
"title": "Pay Cheque (Heritage II)",
"artist": {
"id": 16,
"uri": "/artist/16"
},
"uri": "/track/523",
"id": 523,
"length": 189,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:8080/ftd-2003-sofa_so_good/01 For The Day - Pay Cheque (Heritage II).mp3"
},
{
"number": 2,
"bitrate": 186,
"slug": "in-your-dreams",
"album": {
"id": 36,
"uri": "/album/36"
},
"title": "In Your Dreams",
"artist": {
"id": 16,
"uri": "/artist/16"
},
"uri": "/track/531",
"id": 531,
"length": 171,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:8080/ftd-2003-sofa_so_good/02 For The Day - In Your Dreams.mp3"
}
]
GET /tracks?album=18
[
{
"album": {
"id": 18,
"uri": "/album/18"
},
"length": 132,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:8080/flip-keep_rockin/flip-01-shapes.mp3",
"number": 1,
"title": "Shapes",
"slug": "shapes",
"artist": {
"id": 9,
"uri": "/artist/9"
},
"bitrate": 192,
"id": 277,
"uri": "/track/277"
},
{
"album": {
"id": 18,
"uri": "/album/18"
},
"length": 118,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:8080/flip-keep_rockin/flip-02-stucked_to_the_ground.mp3",
"number": 2,
"title": "Stucked to The Ground",
"slug": "stucked-to-the-ground",
"artist": {
"id": 9,
"uri": "/artist/9"
},
"bitrate": 192,
"id": 281,
"uri": "/track/281"
}
]
Example request/response:
GET /track/256/lyrics
{
"track": {
"id": 256,
"uri": "/track/256"
},
"text": "When i came to this world mother told me\r what was right and what was wrong\r while dad explained me that\r religion, country and flag were things i must respect\r \r So, i decided\r to be political correct\r and a good child\r but then, I realized\r that nothing has changed since then...\r \r my family never told me\r why 30.000 people died in the '70's?\r where was the god\r that they promised me\r he was gonna take me to paradise?\r \r and why those children cry\r behind those war planes\r and those war guns\r oh, please father,\r i don't wanna be part of this...",
"source_uri": "http://lyrics.com/eterna-inocencia/my-family/",
"id": 6,
"uri": "/lyrics/6"
}
- id: The object's ID.
- source_uri: The URI where the lyrics were fetched from.
- text: The lyric's text.
- track: The track for which the lyrics are.
- uri: The URI of this resource's instance.
Everytime you request a lyric, Shiva checks if there's a lyric associated with that track in the database. If it's there it will immediately retrieve it, otherwise will iterate over a list of scrapers, asking each one of them if they can fetch it. This list is in your local config file and looks like:
SCRAPERS = {
'lyrics': (
'modulename.ClassName',
),
}
This will look for a class ClassName, in shiva/lyrics/modulename.py. If more scrapers are added, each one of them is called sequentially, until one of them finds the lyrics and the rest are not executed.
If you want to add your own scraper just create a file under the lyrics directory, let's say mylyrics.py with this structure:
from shiva.lyrics import LyricScraper
class MyLyricsScraper(LyricScraper):
""" Fetches lyrics from mylyrics.com """
def fetch(self, artist, title):
# Magic happens here
if not lyrics:
return False
self.lyrics = lyrics
self.source = lyrics_url
return True
And then add it to the scrapers list:
SCRAPERS = {
'lyrics': (
'modulename.ClassName',
'mylyrics.MyLyricsScraper',
),
}
Remember that the fetch() method has to return True in case the lyrics were found or False otherwise. It must also store the lyrics in self.lyrics and the URL where they fetched from in self.source. That's where Shiva looks for the information.
For more details check the source of the other scrapers.
The 3 main resources accept a fulltree parameter when retrieving an intance. Those are:
- /artist/<int:artist_id>
- /album/<int:album_id>
- /track/<int:track_id>
Whenever you set fulltree to any value that evaluates to True (i.e., any string except 'false' and '0') Shiva will include not only the information of the object you are requesting, but also the child objects. Here's an example:
GET /artist/2?fulltree=true
{
"name": "Eterna Inocencia",
"image": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8339787/Eterna+Inocencia+Eterna.jpg",
"download_uri": "/artist/2/download",
"uri": "/artist/2",
"events_uri": null,
"id": 2,
"slug": "eterna-inocencia",
"albums": [
{
"artists": [
{
"id": 2,
"uri": "/artist/2"
}
],
"download_uri": "/album/2/download",
"name": "Tomalo Con Calma EP",
"year": 2002,
"uri": "/album/2",
"cover": "http://spe.fotolog.com/photo/30/54/51/alkoldinamita/1230537010699_f.jpg",
"id": 2,
"slug": "tomalo-con-calma-ep",
"tracks": [
{
"album": {
"id": 2,
"uri": "/album/2"
},
"length": 161,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:5000/track/27/download",
"number": 0,
"title": "02 - Rio Lujan",
"slug": "02-rio-lujan",
"artist": {
"id": 2,
"uri": "/artist/2"
},
"bitrate": 192,
"id": 27,
"uri": "/track/27"
},
{
"album": {
"id": 2,
"uri": "/album/2"
},
"length": 262,
"stream_uri": "http://localhost:5000/track/28/download",
"number": 0,
"title": "03 - Estoy herido en mi interior",
"slug": "03-estoy-herido-en-mi-interior",
"artist": {
"id": 2,
"uri": "/artist/2"
},
"bitrate": 192,
"id": 28,
"uri": "/track/28"
},
]
}
]
}
The behaviour on a track resource is a little different. In the previous example tracks are the leaves of the tree, but when the fulltree of a track is requested then all the scraped resources are also included, like lyrics.
This is not the default behaviour to avoid DoS'ing scraped websites when fetching the complete discography of an artist.
All the listings are not paginated by default. Whenever you request a list of either artists, albums or tracks the server will retrieve every possible result unless otherwise specified.
It is possible to paginate results by passing the page_size and the page parameters to the resource. They must both be present and be positive integers. If not, they will both be ignored and the whole set of elements will be retrieved.
GET /artists?page_size=10&page=3
It is possible to use slugs instead of IDs when requesting an specific resource. It will work the exact same way because slugs, as IDs, are unique. An example on the /artist resource:
GET /artist/eterna-inocencia
{
"name": "Eterna Inocencia",
"image": "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8339787/Eterna+Inocencia+Eterna.jpg",
"uri": "/artist/3",
"slug": "eterna-inocencia",
"download_uri": "/artist/3/download",
"id": 3
}
Slugs are generated from the following fields
- Artist.name
- Album.name
- Track.title
If the slug clashes with an existing one, then a hyphen and a unique ID will be appended to it. Due to the possibility of using slugs instead of IDs, if an slug results in a numeric string a hyphen and a unique ID will be appended to remove the ambiguity.
You can request a random instance of a given resource for artists, albums or tracks. To do so you need to issue a GET request on one of the following resources:
- /random/artist
- /random/album
- /random/track
They all will return a consistent structure containing id and uri, as follows:
GET /random/artist
{
"id": 3,
"uri": "/artist/3"
}
You will have to issue another request to obtain the details of the instance.
For the sake of simplicity many assumptions were made that will eventually be worked on and improved/removed.
- Only music files. No videos.
- Actually, only mp3 files.
- No users.
- Therefore, no customization.
- And no privacy (You can still use htpasswd, thou.)
- No uploading of files.
- No update of ID3 info when DB info changes.
- The ID3 reader doesn't always detect the bit rate correctly. Seems like a common issue to many libraries, at least the ones I tried.
- Index your music and videos.
- Which formats? Ogg? Wav?
- Batch-edit ID3 tags.
- Download your songs in batch.
- Users.
- Favourite artists.
- Playlists.
- Share your music with your friends.
- Share your music with your friends' servers.
- Listen to your friends' music.
- They can also upload their music.
- Stream audio and video. (Radio mode)
- Set up a radio and collaboratively pick the music.
- Tabs.
Remember that when using this software you must comply with your country's laws. You and only you will be held responsible for any law infringement resulting from the misuse of this software.
That said. Have fun.