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    Sounds like a talk on either of them would be good for some future
    LivLUG :-D&nbsp; (or, at least, I'd be interested in hearing more about
    the options and what they do...)<br>
    <br>
    Adrian.<br>
    <br>
    On 10/06/12 15:23, Dan Lynch wrote:
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CAFW3EdH7hkQH7ZDYizp42C77pKvWg_8wbsk48ZrfCMvQA=samQ@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">No worries. There's a Free Software alternative to
      cloud services like Google Music that's quite popular&nbsp;but the name
      completely escapes me now. It's not Ampache I don't think. That's
      not very helpful. I'll keep thinking and I'm sure it'll pop into
      my mind again.&nbsp;Anyone have an idea what I'm talking about? It's a
      music server platform that you host yourself. The most popular
      alternative for people who don't want to use Google.
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      <div>I'll be scratching my head over that trying to remember all
        day. Good luck with Ampache and Mediatomb. They're slightly
        different projects I think. Mediatomb is aimed at video as much
        as music.</div>
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      <div>See ya,</div>
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      <div>Dan</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Daniel
          Hartley <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk"
              target="_blank">D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi Dan,<br>
              <br>
              Thanks for the reply. I'd seen mediatomb about but it
              seemed to me a lot of users pointed to Ampache. Ampache
              does look very good and very extensible. If I knew
              anything about servers I might be able to get it to work-
              you will probably get a lot more from it than I have so
              far. <br>
              <br>
              Meanwhile, I will get tinkering with Mediatomb. Thanks for
              the re-heads up. <br>
              <br>
              Seems to me my need for a media server able to
              serve/stream my music to me anywhere is a really current
              issue and desire computer users have. It's basically a
              personal spotify, etc., So it would be great to have a
              more 'autonomous' way of doing it. It's all just so I can
              stream music from my laptop when I walk into town at
              lunchtime each day. <br>
              <br>
              Regards,<br>
              <br>
              Daniel
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                  On 10/06/12 15:03, Dan Lynch wrote:
                  <blockquote type="cite"> Hi Daniel,
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                    <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.&nbsp;Have a look
                      at -&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://mediatomb.cc/" target="_blank">http://mediatomb.cc/</a></div>
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                    <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. &nbsp;I'm interested to
                      play with it.</div>
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                    <div>Good luck! Maybe someone else can offer more
                      specific Ampache advice :)</div>
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                    <div>Dan</div>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at
                        2:16 PM, Daniel Hartley <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk"
                            target="_blank">D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span>
                        wrote:<br>
                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0
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                          solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Guys,<br>
                          <br>
                          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>
                          <br>
                          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>
                          <br>
                          The available support for Ampache seems &nbsp;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>
                          <br>
                          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...)??? &nbsp;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>
                          <br>
                          Any help really appreciated. Thanks guys.<br>
                          <br>
                          Regards,<br>
                          <br>
                          Daniel<br>
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