phpRadio / News: Recent posts

Work is heavily underway on phpRadio! I've completely rewritten the backend to use a command-line daemon that does all the hard work of streaming the audio, I call it pRMaster. All interaction is done through reads and writes to a Unix Socket, which provides real-time information to the web code. This lets me keep all state information in PHP structures in memory, rather than having to save states to MySQL every page request and then pull them back out the next request.... read more

phpRadio began as a personal sandbox project to let my family browse through my music and play any song on demand. It has slowly grown in capability and complexity over the past couple years, and has the potential to become an extremely powerful web Jukebox application. After receiving several notes of interest from other users, I began abstracting the code to an arbitrary Object-Oriented model that could be configured for any collection of songs on any server.... read more