saudio is a simple audio file streaming server developed in C++14. It was mainly written for learning purposes as I wanted to get more familiar with the language's new features.

saudio compiles successfully in POSIX compliant OSes. The code that handles platform specific code can be extended to support other platforms.

saudio is minimalistic. It only uses the STL and the POSIX API.

An SCons build script is included with the source code. In order build the server using the aforementioned script you need to have the SCons software installed in your machine.

How to build:

cd in the directory containing the SConstruct file and enter the command

  scons

if you need to build with debugging symbols enabled

  scons --debug-build

When starting the server, it needs to receive the port number that it will listen for incoming connections (using the -p command line argument) and the directory containing the audio files that the server can stream (-l). It can optionally receive the maximum simultaneous connections (-c) and how many serving threads to spawn (-t).

In order for a client to request an audio file stream, a URL like this should be used

http://hostname:port/filename

It is possible for a client to search the server's available audio files by using a URL like this

http://hostname:port/songsearch/keyword

The server's response will be an .m3u file containing all URLs for files matching the keyword.