Music Aggregator and Personal Radio Station
"It's the shark attack, yeah!"
Authored by Ben Farrell
@bfarrellforever
- Maintain local library of new music from around the internet
- Periodically scour your favorite blogs for new music and media
- Administer source feeds and dynamic playlist scripts
- Convert YouTube and other video to MP3
- Stream a customized, personal radio station privately to your own network (beta)
- Daily log files, activity reports, and email status updates as your library grows
- Stream a customized, personal radio station privately to your own network (final)
- Live personal/social interstitials betweenmusic "ads" (Twitter/Facebook statuses read to you)
- Easier setup for users who aren't named Ben
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Semi-hourly updates to power http://play.blastanova.com - Users can purchase, favorite, and listen to tunes
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Weekly Automated Show builds for playback on http://codebassradio.net on Wednesdays from 1pm to 5pm EST
It should be noted that use is very specific to my needs right now, much tweaking of Grunt tasks and configuration may be required for you
- Install the software via Git, Node, and Apt-get (note ffmpeg and mp3 support optional but needed for video conversion support)
git clone https://github.com/bengfarrell/sharkattack.git
npm install
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53
cd sharkattack- Copy the config.json from /backups to project root and fill in missing info and passwords
- Run setup to initialize first run of SharkAttack and start the server
grunt setup
node Main.js
- Visit localhost:3000/admin
- Wait for cron jobs to fire to accumulate music or kickoff the task manually:
grunt buildAssetLibrary
- Note that in my setup, I don't startup the process with Node, I use Supervisor (https://github.com/isaacs/node-supervisor)
- Based on Node.js
- Express.js for radio streaming and administration
- MongoDB for maintaining data
- Twitter Bootstrap and AngularJS for administration and radio pages
- D3.js for daily download charts
- GruntJS for media library and playlist building tasks (run as cron jobs)
- FFMPEG and Youtube-DL for video conversion
- scheduled-tasks : Grunt tasks to run at scheduled cron time
- show : Show (a dynamic playlisted script) package details
- amazon : Amazon account details for affiliated purchase link sharing
- database : A database (MongoDB) is highly recommended for keeping track of your library
- email : Email service to use when sending notification emails
- ftpauth : FTP credentials for sending data output to external sites
- googleAnalytics: Users can record favorites on external site - Google Analytics integration will download and playlist these favorites for show building or private radio
- locations : Media and Data location paths for internal SharkAttack use
- soundcloud : SoundCloud credentials for downloading media
- tasks : custom task definitions
MIT