It's probably easier to use Subsonic for that, it's build for dealing with local files.

[0] http://www.subsonic.org/

I've tried to use subsonic and madsonic (a fork of subsonic) before. I didn't like either of them much nor did I like the phone apps to accompany them (many are paid apps as well). I'm gonna look at this project tomorrow and see if I want to undertake a server port. I think it would be viable.

Agreed, the mobile apps are mostly ugly or abandoned and the server software itself still uses a flash player. It's just something I put up with because there's no better alternative at the moment.

I'll see what I can do about it ;) I just found this from some of the comments above http://ampache.org/. I'm gonna install that and see how it is, but I really think I'm going to move forward with trying to integrate this with a seedbox type of server. Since the client is done in JS as well it could be practical to port that to Android and iPhone also.

Sounds good, I'll be watching the repo. If you need someone to test it on a server with a bunch of music on it let me know.