When it comes to multimedia, there are several tools and applications which take the road of organizing and arranging your music for you. Personally I don't use media players anymore but there are plethora of players there for all levels of music freaks. Most media players are local and handle the task of organizing your music for easy access.
             On the other hand, web based multimedia apps avail your music collection to you wherever and on what ever platform your choose, as long as they have a browser.

I've being trying several web apps trying to single out an easy and robust solution just for this purpose when I came across mp3act. Mp3act is a web application which organizes your music library and makes it available on a web site or local server. If you have a site accessible to the world, that's even better, you can access your music anywhere, even on your smartphone.

In this session we are going to consider how to host a local server on a local machine (the same applies for a web accessible site/server).
Before we move any further, lets consider the prerequisites:
webserver, MySQL, PHP support, mp3act and a music collection.

I'm testing using Vertrigo Web Server, which comes preinstalled with PHP, PhpmyAdmin and MySQLite.

After ensuring that your system has all the prerequisites, you need to create a database which you'll use for the installation.

You can use either PhpMyAdmin or MySQLlite.
Create a dbase with name music or mp3chat [anyname is fine]

After thus go to the install page:
http://yoursite.com/mp3act/install.php

Install with all the necessary credentials and you're ready to fire it up.
remmeber to use the same dbase you created earlier,

**Minor Problems
There may be times when you may find problems when adding music
to ensure you don't have this problem make sure all music directories are world readable or accessible by mp3act.

In Linux, this can easily be solved
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chown a+rw /dir/to/music
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Ok, that's about it, hope you try it out and share your experience!!