Saturday, April 28, 2007

[BLUG] personal music server

I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere.  I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer.  I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this?  There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/).  Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this.  I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time.  I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely.  Is it safe to run this type of web server at home?  I could also install it on my shared hosting account.  This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well I guess because I'm the author and project manager of Jinzora I'd suggest that :-)

I won't say we're always perfect, but I will promise you this. If you have any problems email me directly at ross at jinzora dot com (remind me of this post) and I'll do everything I can to get you going.

How's that?

Good luck....

Ross