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Music Client / Server Distributed Implementation

This program was created to as part of the Distributed Systems class at University of Derby. Its a Client - Load Balancer - Client implementation of a very basic form of a music playing app. Allowing the user to make an account, view and play songs found on the server.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Any Windows/Linux/MacOs machine running Python 3.7 & Higher.

The program can run on any OS, however testing was mostly done in Windows, so there might be unexplored bugs with other operating systems.

Usage

  1. Download the latest Client, Load Balancer, Server Instance archives (.zip) from the releases tab.
  2. Extract the folders from the zip files.
  3. Modify host & port values in DSClient.py & DSLoadBalancer.py as required (by default they're set to run on localhost and port 9999)
  4. Make sure Load balancer & Server Instance folders are in the same directory.
  5. Run DSServerLB.py on the server machine & DSClient.py on the client machine.

Built With

  • Python - The programming language used.
  • Server & Client were provided by the teacher of the class, and were modified to work with the rest of the code.
  • Some code has been reused from the Networks and Security project as well.

Versioning

For the versions available, check the Releases tab on the repository.