Sunday, April 29, 2007

Re: [BLUG] personal music server

The only music sharing server I've played with is gnump3d, which was
simple, easy, and functional.

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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

well as an alternative to shoutcast can i recomend icecast or the distro http://dynebolic.org/

On 4/29/07, Weldon Sams <wsams@indiana.edu> wrote:
I don't know what you all think about a shoutcast server, but I set one up a couple years ago on my linux box and it streamed 128kbps fine over insight or sbc/yahoo dsl -- i can't remember which one. It's free and you can lock it down. Just thought I'd through that one out there. It's been a while, so I don't know what it's like now.

Weldon

On 4/28/07, Ben Shewmaker < benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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