“A personal music server
for everyone”

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Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It's designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3's can get their friends listening to their music across the internet in seconds!

Sockso features

  • Simple setup (no install! just double click and go!)
  • Supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac and WMA
  • Easy web-interface for your friends, and a GUI for you!
  • Online flash music player, playlists, search, etc...
  • Download single tracks, or entire albums/artists or playlists
  • Statistics like most played, recently popular, etc...

See a complete feature list

Viewing an album

GUI Interface Screenshot

The homepage

If you love using Sockso and would like to give a little back, try a donation to help out and support open source development.

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2nd May

Sockso 1.1.8 - Bug fixes for 'connection closed' issue.

19th February

Sockso 1.1.7 - Bug fixes for MySQL, reduced CPU usage with toggleable buffering options when streaming, and removed remaining hard coded text from web interface.

19th January

Sockso 1.1.6 - Bug fixes for indexing and properties, a smarter 404 page, updated german translation, and upgraded to jQuery 1.3

11th January

Sockso 1.1.5 - Bug fixes for MySQL backend, and some javascript issues.

4th January 2009

Sockso 1.1.4 - Bug fixes for searching and logging in / uploading. Added unpacked javascript, restyled album and artist pages to better fit long names (and added a new 'JS Player' - unstable).

7th December

Sockso 1.1.3 - Bug fixes.

25th November

Sockso 1.1.2 - Fixed file uploading (hopefully all platforms).

20th October

Sockso 1.1.1 - Added french translation, ability to scan collection on demand, and fixed bugs with --datadir, indexing Ogg files, a missing image, and the name of the scrobble log.

7th October

Sockso 1.1 - MySQL and (some) SQLite support added, Sockso is now more easily customizable, new WMA to MP3 encoding option.

19th September

Sockso 1.0.9 - Added SSL support, streaming can now require authentication, users can get their scrobble log for tracks they've listened to, added a new flash player, fixed some bugs.

6th September

Sockso 1.0.7 - Add 'related artists' information to pages, improved unicode support and fixed Windows indexing bug (hidden folders now ignored)

30th July

Sockso 1.0.6 - Bug fix release for problems losing colors when resizing local cover art.

27th July

Sockso 1.0.5 - Added resizing of user artwork, random playing of artists/albums, ability to import playlists, fixed imageflow squashing bug, dutch and german translations, and informs user if new versions are available.

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