diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/MANIFEST.in b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/MANIFEST.in
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+include README.rst
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/README.rst b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/README.rst
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+
+Ghetto temporary installation instructions
+
+set up a virtualenv
+activate it
+pip install mutagen python-magic pika
+
+You will need to allow the "airtime" RabbitMQ user to access the airtime-uploads exchange and queue:
+
+    sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p /airtime airtime airtime-uploads airtime-uploads airtime-uploads
+
+
+Developers
+==========
+
+For development, you want to install AAQ system-wide but with everything symlinked back to the source 
+directory (for convenience), so run:
+    
+    $ sudo python setup.py develop
+
+
+
+Unit Tests
+==========
+
+To run the unit tests, execute:
+
+    $ nosetests
+
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/__init__.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/__init__.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/__init__.py
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+from airtime_analyzer import AirtimeAnalyzerServer
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer.py
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+import ConfigParser
+from metadata_analyzer import MetadataAnalyzer
+from replaygain_analyzer import ReplayGainAnalyzer
+from message_listener import MessageListener
+
+
+class AirtimeAnalyzerServer:
+
+    _CONFIG_PATH = '/etc/airtime/airtime.conf'
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        
+        # Read our config file
+        rabbitmq_config = self.read_config_file()
+
+        # Start listening for RabbitMQ messages telling us about newly
+        # uploaded files.
+        self._msg_listener = MessageListener(rabbitmq_config)
+
+    def read_config_file(self):
+        config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
+        config_path = AirtimeAnalyzerServer._CONFIG_PATH 
+        try:
+            config.readfp(open(config_path))
+        except IOError as e:
+            print "Failed to open config file at " + config_path + ": " + e.strerror 
+            exit(-1)
+        except Exception:
+            print e.strerror 
+            exit(-1)
+
+        return config
+        
+
+''' When being run from the command line, analyze a file passed
+    as an argument. '''
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import sys
+    analyzers = AnalyzerPipeline()
+
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer.py
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index 000000000..de23a8e68
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer.py
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+
+class Analyzer:
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def analyze(filename):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+class AnalyzerError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super.__init__(self)
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer_pipeline.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer_pipeline.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/analyzer_pipeline.py
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+from metadata_analyzer import MetadataAnalyzer
+
+class AnalyzerPipeline:
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    #TODO: Take a JSON message and perform the necessary analysis.
+    #TODO: Comment the shit out of this
+    @staticmethod
+    def run_analysis(json_msg, queue):
+        # TODO: Pass the JSON along to each analyzer??
+        #print MetadataAnalyzer.analyze("foo.mp3")
+        #print ReplayGainAnalyzer.analyze("foo.mp3")
+        #raise Exception("Test Crash")
+        queue.put(MetadataAnalyzer.analyze("foo.mp3"))
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
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index 000000000..e256fd7cc
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
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+import sys
+import pika
+import multiprocessing 
+from analyzer_pipeline import AnalyzerPipeline
+
+EXCHANGE = "airtime-uploads"
+EXCHANGE_TYPE = "topic"
+ROUTING_KEY = "" #"airtime.analyzer.tasks"
+QUEUE = "airtime-uploads"
+
+
+''' TODO: Document me
+    - round robin messaging
+    - acking
+    - why we use the multiprocess architecture
+'''
+class MessageListener:
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+
+        RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION = "rabbitmq"
+        if not config.has_section(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION):
+            print "Error: rabbitmq section not found in config file at " + config_path
+            exit(-1)
+
+        self._host = config.get(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION, 'host')
+        self._port = config.getint(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION, 'port')
+        self._username = config.get(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION, 'user')
+        self._password = config.get(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION, 'password')
+        self._vhost = config.get(RMQ_CONFIG_SECTION, 'vhost')
+
+        self._connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host=self._host, 
+            port=self._port, virtual_host=self._vhost, 
+            credentials=pika.credentials.PlainCredentials(self._username, self._password)))
+        self._channel = self._connection.channel()
+        self._channel.exchange_declare(exchange=EXCHANGE, type=EXCHANGE_TYPE)
+        result = self._channel.queue_declare(queue=QUEUE, durable=True)
+
+        self._channel.queue_bind(exchange=EXCHANGE, queue=QUEUE, routing_key=ROUTING_KEY)
+         
+        print " Listening for messages..."
+        self._channel.basic_consume(MessageListener.msg_received_callback, 
+                                    queue=QUEUE, no_ack=False)
+
+        try:
+            self._channel.start_consuming()
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            self._channel.stop_consuming()
+
+        self._connection.close()
+
+    # consume callback function
+    @staticmethod
+    def msg_received_callback(channel, method_frame, header_frame, body):
+        print " - Received '%s' on routing_key '%s'" % (body, method_frame.routing_key)
+
+        # Spin up a worker process. We use the multiprocessing module and multiprocessing.Queue 
+        # to pass objects between the processes so that if the analyzer process crashes, it does not
+        # take down the rest of the daemon and we NACK that message so that it doesn't get 
+        # propagated to other airtime_analyzer daemons (eg. running on other servers). 
+        # We avoid cascading failure this way.
+        try:
+            MessageListener.spawn_analyzer_process(body)
+        except Exception:
+            #If ANY exception happens while processing a file, we're going to NACK to the 
+            #messaging server and tell it to remove the message from the queue. 
+            #(NACK is a negative acknowledgement. We could use ACK instead, but this might come
+            # in handy in the future.)
+            #Exceptions in this context are unexpected, unhandled errors. We try to recover
+            #from as many errors as possble in AnalyzerPipeline, but we're safeguarding ourselves
+            #here from any catastrophic or genuinely unexpected errors:
+            channel.basic_nack(delivery_tag=method_frame.delivery_tag, multiple=False,
+                               requeue=False) #Important that it doesn't requeue the message
+
+            #TODO: Report this as a failed upload to the File Upload REST API.
+            #
+            #
+
+        else:
+            # ACK at the very end, after the message has been successfully processed.
+            # If we don't ack, then RabbitMQ will redeliver a message in the future.
+            channel.basic_ack(delivery_tag=method_frame.delivery_tag)
+
+        # Anything else could happen here:
+        # Send an email alert, send an xmnp message, trigger another process, etc
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def spawn_analyzer_process(json_msg):
+
+        q = multiprocessing.Queue()
+        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=AnalyzerPipeline.run_analysis, args=(json_msg, q))
+        p.start()
+        p.join()
+        if p.exitcode == 0:
+            results = q.get()
+            print "Server received results: "
+            print results
+        else:
+            print "Analyzer process terminated unexpectedly."
+            raise AnalyzerException()
+
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/metadata_analyzer.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/metadata_analyzer.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/metadata_analyzer.py
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+import mutagen
+import magic # For MIME type detection
+from analyzer import Analyzer
+
+class MetadataAnalyzer(Analyzer):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def analyze(filename):
+
+        metadata = dict()
+        #Extract metadata from an audio file using mutagen
+        audio_file = mutagen.File(filename, easy=True)
+
+        #Grab other file information that isn't encoded in a tag, but instead usually
+        #in the file header. Mutagen breaks that out into a separate "info" object:
+        info = audio_file.info
+        metadata["sample_rate"] = info.sample_rate
+        metadata["length_seconds"] = info.length
+        metadata["bitrate"] = info.bitrate
+      
+        #Use the python-magic module to get the MIME type.
+        mime_magic = magic.Magic(mime=True)
+        metadata["mime_type"] = mime_magic.from_file(filename)
+
+        #We normalize the mutagen tags slightly here, so in case mutagen changes,
+        #we find the 
+        mutagen_to_analyzer_mapping = {
+            'title':        'title',
+            'artist':       'artist',
+            'album':        'album',
+            'bpm':          'bpm',
+            'composer':     'composer',
+            'conductor':    'conductor',
+            'copyright':    'copyright',
+            'encoded_by':   'encoder',
+            'genre':        'genre',
+            'isrc':         'isrc',
+            'label':        'label',
+            'language':     'language',
+            'last_modified':'last_modified',
+            'mood':         'mood',
+            'replay_gain':  'replaygain',
+            'track_number': 'tracknumber',
+            'track_total':  'tracktotal',
+            'website':      'website',
+            'year':         'year',
+        }
+
+        for mutagen_tag, analyzer_tag in mutagen_to_analyzer_mapping.iteritems():
+            try:
+                metadata[analyzer_tag] = audio_file[mutagen_tag]
+
+                # Some tags are returned as lists because there could be multiple values.
+                # This is unusual so we're going to always just take the first item in the list.
+                if isinstance(metadata[analyzer_tag], list):
+                    metadata[analyzer_tag] = metadata[analyzer_tag][0]
+
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+
+        return metadata
+
+
+
+'''
+For reference, the Airtime metadata fields are:
+            title
+            artist ("Creator" in Airtime)
+            album
+            bit rate
+            BPM
+            composer
+            conductor
+            copyright
+            cue in
+            cue out
+            encoded by
+            genre
+            ISRC
+            label
+            language
+            last modified
+            length
+            mime
+            mood
+            owner
+            replay gain
+            sample rate
+            track number
+            website
+            year
+'''
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/replaygain_analyzer.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/replaygain_analyzer.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/replaygain_analyzer.py
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+from analyzer import Analyzer
+
+''' TODO: everything '''
+class ReplayGainAnalyzer(Analyzer):
+    
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def analyze(filename):
+        pass
+    
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/bin/airtime_analyzer b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/bin/airtime_analyzer
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/bin/airtime_analyzer
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import daemon
+import argparse
+import airtime_analyzer as aa
+
+VERSION = "1.0"
+
+print "Airtime Analyzer " + VERSION
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("-d", "--daemon", help="run as a daemon", action="store_true")
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+if args.daemon:
+    with daemon.DaemonContext():
+        analyzer = aa.AirtimeAnalyzerServer()
+else: 
+    # Run without daemonizing
+    analyzer = aa.AirtimeAnalyzerServer()
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/setup.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/setup.py
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/setup.py
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+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup(name='airtime_analyzer',
+      version='0.1',
+      description='Airtime Analyzer Worker and File Importer',
+      url='http://github.com/sourcefabric/Airtime',
+      author='Albert Santoni',
+      author_email='albert.santoni@sourcefabric.org',
+      license='MIT',
+      packages=['airtime_analyzer'],
+      scripts=['bin/airtime_analyzer'],
+      install_requires=[
+          'mutagen',
+          'python-magic',
+          'pika',
+          'nose',
+          'python-daemon',
+          'requests',
+      ],
+      zip_safe=False)
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tests/__init__.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tests/__init__.py
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index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tests/airtime_analyzer_queue_tests.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tests/airtime_analyzer_queue_tests.py
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index 000000000..949033a5c
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tests/airtime_analyzer_queue_tests.py
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+from nose.tools import *
+import airtime_analyzer_queue
+
+def setup():
+    print "SETUP!"
+
+def teardown():
+    print "TEAR DOWN!"
+
+def test_basic():
+    print "I RAN!"
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/message_sender.php b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/message_sender.php
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/message_sender.php
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+<?
+require_once('php-amqplib/amqp.inc');
+
+//use PhpAmqpLibConnectionAMQPConnection;
+//use PhpAmqpLibMessageAMQPMessage;
+
+define('HOST', '127.0.0.1');
+define('PORT', '5672');
+define('USER', 'airtime');
+define('PASS', 'QEFKX5GMKT4YNMOAL9R8');
+define('VHOST', '/airtime');//'/airtime');
+
+$exchange = "airtime-uploads";
+$exchangeType = "topic";
+$queue = "airtime-uploads";
+$routingKey = ""; //"airtime.analyzer.tasks";
+
+if ($argc <= 1)
+{
+    echo("Usage: " . $argv[0] . " message\n");
+    exit();
+}
+
+$message = $argv[1]; 
+ 
+$connection = new AMQPConnection(HOST, PORT, USER, PASS, VHOST);
+if (!isset($connection))
+{
+    echo "Failed to connect to the RabbitMQ server.";
+    return;
+}
+
+$channel = $connection->channel();
+ 
+// declare/create the queue
+$channel->queue_declare($queue, false, true, false, false);
+  
+// declare/create the exchange as a topic exchange.
+$channel->exchange_declare($exchange, $exchangeType, false, false, false);
+
+$msg = new AMQPMessage($message, array("content_type" => "text/plain"));
+
+$channel->basic_publish($msg, $exchange, $routingKey);
+print "Sent $message ($routingKey)\n";
+$channel->close();
+$connection->close();
+
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/php-amqplib b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/php-amqplib
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+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/tools/php-amqplib
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+../../../airtime_mvc/library/php-amqplib
\ No newline at end of file