Zina 0.12.12 review

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Ryan

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Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. Zina can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke/Xoops/Mambo module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.

Here are some key features of "Zina":
MP3 / OGG / WAV / WMA / Real Audio streaming
Custom and "Session" Playlists
Random, non-repeating playlists by albums or songs
"Skip Track:" Easily exclude songs from albums and random playlists
Searching
Simple Installation (no database)
Easy to configure:(uses regular text and graphic files for customization)
Can be used as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module
As of 0.11.09 can be used as an Xoops module or MamboServer component
Can downsample mp3s on the fly (with external encoder like LAME)
Can dynamically resize images if your version of PHP (with GD library) supports it.
Localization support (0.10.x: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, French, Danish, Bulgarian, Croation, Hebrew, Basque, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Swedish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Catalan, Brazilian, Albanian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Kannada; 0.11.x adds Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese)
Many of the features of Andromeda
Many other features (see Changelog)
Released under GNU General Public License

Requierments:
PHP 4.1.x on the Apache web server (IIS is not supported, although it may work, see here).
Any web browser that supports JavaScript and CSS.
An media player (Winamp, xmms, mpg123, etc.) that supports .m3u playlists (and .asx in 0.11.x).

What's New in This Release:
This release adds user configurable song options for lyrics and tabs.
Various caching options are available to increase performance.
More random options have been added.
A Polish translation is included.