# play/play

play ► — your company's dj

Repository: https://github.com/play/play
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/play
Homepage: http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-04-06T02:42:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5636, "days_push": 3436, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2698, forks 359 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.298317+00:00)

## What it is
Play is a self-hosted, iTunes-based distributed music server for offices, letting employees vote on and queue songs and stream a shared office playlist over the web. It exposes a web app and API (drivable via Campfire/Hubot) with realtime updates through Pusher.

## Use cases
- share one office music queue across remote employees
- let coworkers vote on what song plays next
- control iTunes playback from a chat bot
- stream office music to speakers and client devices
- upload songs to a shared library via a browser

## When to avoid
- you don't use macOS and iTunes
- you need a maintained, modern music streaming solution
- you want Spotify or cloud-service integration

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-server, api-framework, websocket, web-framework
- domain: media, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: music-server, itunes, office-music, streaming, campfire, pusher, ruby, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- play/play (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.298317+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:16:09.352267+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/play/play (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.298317+00:00, sha 637012a5e298)
  - homepage: http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:16.528415+00:00, sha 1676c26ed062)
  - site_page: https://zachholman.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:16.530939+00:00, sha 6c8dcb4c4711)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.