Hi Daniel,<div><br></div><div>Hopefully this isn't a completely off-topic reply but I don't know much about Ampache. I've never looked at it to be honest. I use Mediatomb to serve video and audio from my machines across the network via DNLA. My PS3, other computers and devices can consume that pretty easily. It's all packaged in Ubuntu but works well on other distros too. The web interface is also nice. Have a look at - <a href="http://mediatomb.cc/">http://mediatomb.cc/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Meanwhile I'm going to check out Ampache and see what it can do. You might find it's a better solution for what you want. I'm interested to play with it.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck! Maybe someone else can offer more specific Ampache advice :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Hartley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk" target="_blank">D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I've heard a few others mention using media servers to serve their media throughout the home and across the internet. This is something I would love to figure out- I finally tried over the past couple of days, using Ampache. I was wondering if anybody could advise me on setting it up so it actually works because so far I haven't been able to access music through any other machine.<br>
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Ampache is successfully set up on localhost and catalogues of music are connected. It will play music via flash on localhost but I can't seem to make it stream, and can't figure out the 'localplay' set up, using VLC, etc.<br>
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The available support for Ampache seems quite fragmented. There is forums and support from independent users but no real 'manual' for unknowledgeable amateurs like myself... this is the first time I'm setting up a server really- I've messed about with servers a little in the past, but most of it is over my head.<br>
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Could anybody give some advice, describe their own experiences, or how else I might be able to successfully stream/serve music over the internet, to all machines I have access to, including a mobile (unfortunately an iPhone at the mo...)??? I'm not really completely sure of the system I would need to go about making this happen, and how I could set up Ampache to do that....<br>
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Any help really appreciated. Thanks guys.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Daniel<br>
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