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Managing your music collection can be a daunting task. There are many ways you can go about managing your collection and people are slowly getting control over their private collection. I recently was thinking how nice it would be to have a central point to store my music and how I might make that music available through out the house. I had seen many web based systems like this but since they all looked and felt like a “web page” I steered clear of them. I knew that it might go over well with me, but that my family just wouldn’t use a system that didn’t feel like an application or was difficult to navigate.

I was just about the give up my search and delay this project until I had some free time to design something myself. That’s when I stubled on mp[3]act. It looked like a well designed site, which meant the interface for the system would likely be just as nice. I immedeatly dove into the demo site and began poking around. After poking around for a few minutes I had almost forgotten that I was working with it from with in a web browser. After a pleasent few minutes poking about in the demo it was now time for the pre-im-going-to-try-this-out test to determine if it this project was as good as it looked. It was time to look at the package dependancies. I was expecting a sizable hornets nest of difficult to set packages with odd configurations. What I instead got was a simple list of standard LAMP packages, with no special and/or funky setup.

It looks to me, like the perfect solution to my problem. I’ll be setting mp[3]act up this week and detailing my progress in my wiki. Once all is said and done there will be a Ubuntu walk through to follow.