Sockso is a free , open-source , personal music host 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 !

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Latest News & Releases

12th May Sockso 1.5.3 - Bug fix release - fixes broken folder browsing and related artists.

29th April Sockso 1.5.2 - Bug fix for broken local cover art, and updated French translation.

14th March 2012 Sockso 1.5.1 - Bug fixes for path security hole, API access, and encoded pluses. Along with updated Italian translation, adding ability to extract cover art from ID3 tags.

10th December Sockso 1.5 - Added ability to add arbitrary meta tags, JPlayer support, HTTP Range header support, bug fixes, and finalised API v1.0

25th July Sockso 1.4.2 - Fix for fetching cover artwork from Amazon.

24th July Sockso 1.4.1 - Fixes for unicode output issue, and strict JSON API issue with single quotes.

23rd July Sockso 1.4 - Added a JSON API to support developing applications on top of Sockso.

8th July Posted screencast of *VERY* early version of new Sockso iPhone app. Feedback appreciated in the forums.

2nd July Sockso 1.3.5 - Fix for problem on OSX where Sockso would not start, other minor bug fixes for Flac handling.

26th June Sockso 1.3.4 - New HTML5 Player for iPad/iOS/etc support from nguillaumin, new 'tinygreen' skin from Simplify, and some bug fixes.

4th May Sockso 1.3.3 - Album years now shown, Turkish translation added, and MP3 tag library updated (all thanks to badZeppelin!), some bug fixes to ajax page loading.

2nd April Sockso 1.3.2 - Users can now require approval when registering, and updated ajaxified web interface with embedded player now default.

23rd March Sockso 1.3.1 - Fix for missing 'colscan' command from console, moved optional libraries location (to upgrade rename your optionals folder from 'lib-opt' to 'lib/opt', and a bug fix for invalid URL characters breaking some playlist files.

17th March Sockso 1.3 - Created ability to add servers to the new Sockso Community, and you can now run behind Apache without needing a VirtualHost (thanks to LightGlitch!)

5th February Sockso 1.2.7 - Fix for broken javascript in 1.2.6.

30th January 2011 Sockso 1.2.6 (broken) - Fix for selecting the playlist in some browsers, and added new web admin console.

17th December Sockso 1.2.5 - Minor bug fix for adding items to the playlist when browsing folders.

10th April Sockso 1.2.4 - Patches from Will to improve HTTP/HTTPS streaming performance, and HTML compliance, improved music tree in GUI to cope with any size collections, hidden files now ignored on indexing, and some other bugs.