Glad you asked.

For the past x years I’ve been toiling away on a combination of software and hardware at home that allows me and the wifey to play selections from my vast collection of music to various rooms around the house (and beyond).

If you visit Piper’s Pages, you’ll find a post (login as guest) that begins the record of how this endeavour began.  Yes, it began 4 years ago.

And it’s still going strong.

Browse interface

The project, in today’s form, uses a web interface to browse/search the collection.  The search options are quite powerful (confusingly so?) and can be saved for frequent use, you can create playlists of songs and albums, you can have the system suggest similar music.  There are statistics – including scoring and ranking – and metadata pulled from external sources.  We’ve even got BPM info.

There are a slew of maintenance scripts that power this thing, and no less than three disparate “servers” that go into making it all happen. Currently we’ve got two physical zone – family room and basement – and another four virtual zones for streaming.

So that’s the short intro.  For more you’ll have to visit Piper’s Pages and check out the DP’s Corner database.