[Liverpool] Media Server/Ampache

[Daniel Hartley]

Hi Dan,

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.

Meanwhile, I will get tinkering with Mediatomb. Thanks for the re-heads up.

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.

Regards,

Daniel

On 10/06/12 15:03, Dan Lynch wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> 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 - http://mediatomb.cc/
>
> 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.
>
> Good luck! Maybe someone else can offer more specific Ampache advice :)
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Hartley 
> <D.R.T.Hartley at liverpool.ac.uk <mailto:D.R.T.Hartley at liverpool.ac.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys,
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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....
>
>     Any help really appreciated. Thanks guys.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Daniel
>
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