simplay (simply play) is a very simple website to play audio files using a web browser. It features
a single html file index.html with a very simple javascript backend simplay.js to request a list
of files from a webserver. After retrieving this list, it displays the files in a very ugly list
while also listing directories into which one can descend.
Simplay was tested with the json representation of directory listings as returned from nginx's
ngx_http_autoindex_module. Configure nginx to return the contents of the directory to be served similar to this
example:
events {
}
http {
server {
listen 8080;
root /the/root
location /audio_files {
autoindex on;
autoindex_format jsonp;
}
}
}
The configuration is intentionally simple. Adapt and strengthen it using your own judgement!
In simplay.js, set the variable Player.base_dir to the base directory on the server. Using the
nginx example above, you should set it to /audio_files. Then, simply serve index.html and
simplay.js using the webserver.