Web Music Player of Your Own : Free and Self Hosted

Web Music Player of Your Own Comes as Absolutely Free of Cost, you can host on any free Cloud Storage service which supports to serve HTML webpage like dropbox. You can upload your own music and play on any device from computer to mobile devices. You can change the appearance by changing the CSS and image files.

 

Web Music Player of Your Own : The History

 

The original version was a downloadable Free Music Player as demo with less features from of a paid software. However they have not included any License. We are distributing it with a GNU GPL3 License for keeping the original developer’s code secured. Web Music Player of Your Own is really Web Music Player of Your Own. As per GNU GPL3 License you can modify, distribute or commercially sell it.

 

Web Music Player of Your Own : Example with Dropbox Free Account

 

You can download the package from here (copy-paste it on new browser window) :

 

 

This is 725 KB file, that includes a music too. Read the Guide to use the Tools for Using Dropbox Cloud for Web Hosting Easily for running your own version. If you want to use Rackspace Cloud Files, read this guide on Cloud Files Hosted Music Player of Your Own.

Now when you will unzip, you will get things like this :

 

 

Upload the whole folder (that extracted folder) to Dropbox’s Public folder. Inside the demo named folder, there will be an index.html file. If you open it on browser, you will get a nice looking web music player like this :
 

 

Usages of the demo folder’s content for customization, adding music :
 

As this is a very light version without any database or script written in any dynamic programming language, you have to modify yourself, add music yourself. Original developer has no support for free version. Here we are providing some support, we will write in details after developing the alternate looks / skins :
 

mix : mix folder contains the music to play.
css : Cascading Style Sheet for the index.html file.
images : contains images, which you can change.