Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Steve Jobs
Pablo Picasso

Probably everyone listens to music on the Internet, most of them use VKontakte for this purpose, or services based on its music base. All existing free services have different flaws, which were not in the now paid simple player. And I had the idea to create not just another simple player with a database from VKontakte, but one that everyone can put on a hosting.
Online players have two main problems: there is no music or bad usability (no playlists, uncomfortable search, etc.). In a simple player, all this was, therefore, when developing it was oriented towards it.
Key features of the player- Search. The search is conducted through VKontakte, respectively, all the music that can be found on VKontakte can be found here.
- Simple authorization. Authorization is optional and only needed to access your playlists. Login and registration are not disconnected, that is, during authorization, the presence of a user in the database is checked, if there is none, he is created. Password is optional.
- Playlists. Playlists are available only to authorized users. They need to group your music.
- Drag & Drop. Convenient control of the player via drag & drop.
- Social integration. You can share your favorite (or disliked) track with your friends on VKontakte, Facebook and Twitter.
- Link to track. You can also share a track by simply copying the link to it and sending it in any available way (jabber,
icq , email).
- Recommendations. Based on the music listened by users, a database of recommendations is formed, which will tell you what else you can listen to.
There are even advantages- Decentralization. Open Player everyone can install on their LAMP-hosting without any restrictions from the player.
- Free and open. The project is completely free for both users and those who want to install it for themselves. Distributed "as is". If necessary, it is easy to modify for themselves.
To raise the mirror, the base of music is not needed, the entire search is conducted through VKontakte, from there the music content is taken, by and large it is a superstructure above VKontakte, with playlists and user-friendly interface.
The working version can be tested here:
oplayer.org .
The list of public mirrors became too big and moved to the
openplayer project
page .
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Installation instructions for your hosting is also on
the project page .
PS This is the first version of the player, for sure there are bugs, if the idea goes - I will develop further.
UPD: If someone installed a player, do not be greedy, share the link :) (add to the list of mirrors)
UPD2: GitHub
github.com/uavn/openplayer