Yeah good idea Adrian. In the meantime I found this <a href="http://grooveshark.com/">http://grooveshark.com/</a> and I think that's what I was referring to. It's not Free Software though or even close. Perhaps I had it mixed up in my mind with something else. Ampache looks about the most popular FOSS solution to this problem.<div>
<br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Adrian McEwen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrian@mcqn.net" target="_blank">adrian@mcqn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sounds like a talk on either of them would be good for some future
LivLUG :-D (or, at least, I'd be interested in hearing more about
the options and what they do...)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Adrian.</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 10/06/12 15:23, Dan Lynch wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">No worries. There's a Free Software alternative to
cloud services like Google Music that's quite popular 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. 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.
<div>
<br>
</div>
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Dan</div>
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<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:13 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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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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<div><br>
<br>
On 10/06/12 15:03, Dan Lynch wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> 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/" target="_blank">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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc 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 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...)??? 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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