cnote is a way to easily share my (or your!) personal music library over the world wide web. It provides a dead-simple web application enabling anyone to browse your music by artist or album. Songs are played using the 'html5' audio tag. This means that support for mp3/aac/ogg audio is dependent on your browser. Firefox doesn't come with the codecs for mp3 or aac, so unless your music library is all ogg, use Chrome

I originally designed it so that I could access the music I had on my desktop at home from my laptop at work, and at this point it performs the task admirably.

I also wrote it to show that writing web applications in C isn't 'that hard', and gives you something small and fast. I stand by that belief, but frankly I would probably just use Go for any new project like this.

cnote compiles to a small native binary, which serves http on port 1969. All the binary does is respond to requests for /artist* and /album*. The files in fe/ (frontend) can be served from nginx, along with your music. See the config in examples/nginx.conf for how this works.

There are several paths in src/cnote.c to configure to point cnote at your library. When it starts up for the first time, it will crawl your library and pull information about the songs out of the music files and into a sqlite database. It uses inotify to watch your music library, so rearranging, adding and deleting files will automatically be reflected in cnote (although for now you will have to reload the web page).

cnote uses inotify to watch for new/changed files, so it is currently linux only. kqueue provides similar functionality on Mac/BSD, so abstracting this out would be possible, but I don't have plans to do that right now.

• A nifty wrapper around inotify, which provides recursive directory watching.

• Linux kernel-like linked lists, which use embedded pointers in objects, rather than a separately allocated list node object.

• Efficient custom JSON serialization. A single allocation is performed per call to jsonify(), even for complex nested data structures (like lists of objects).

It works excellently for me with the nginx config in examples. Memory usage after several hundred thousand requests is stable at about 11 MiB (and half of that is sqlite indexes). It serves ~750 requests/sec, with sqlite being the limiting factor.

cnote is offered under the MIT license, see COPYING for details.