[Liverpool] Media Server/Ampache

[Dan Lynch]

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.

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.

See ya,

Dan


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Hartley <
D.R.T.Hartley at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

>  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> 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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