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sbisson at 10:06am on 17/08/2002
sbisson at 10:06am on 17/08/2002.. just add server configs.
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marypcb and I have a fairly hefty collection of MP3s on the house server. Unfortunately that means it's quite difficult keeping media player catalogues up to date, especially as I now rip everything I buy as soon as it gets into the house. No matter what player I use, be it Winamp, Media Player, MMJB or iTunes, there's always the long and tedious process of recataloguing the files...
Then I saw a mention on Boing Boing (where else?) of Andromeda. It promised to be a low cost, easy to install web-based media streaming server. The documentation made it look easy to set up, so I signed up and received the 33K file in my inbox in just a few seconds. It took about the same amount of time to unzip the file in the server MP3 directory, and to set up the house server's copy of IIS to use that directory as a virtual directory. I'd recommend setting up a preferences file, as some of the defaults don't quite fit the way I work with music - but that didn't take long to get working, either. While I'm using the ASP version on a Windows server, you also have the option of a PHP script - so it'll run on OS X or pretty much any other OS with a PHP port. It'll even run as a portlet on a Nuke or similar portal site.
So now I have a URL on the house network where I can go to choose the music I want to hear, and see just what's been recently added.
It's an iPod for the web.
I like it. A lot.
marypcb and I have a fairly hefty collection of MP3s on the house server. Unfortunately that means it's quite difficult keeping media player catalogues up to date, especially as I now rip everything I buy as soon as it gets into the house. No matter what player I use, be it Winamp, Media Player, MMJB or iTunes, there's always the long and tedious process of recataloguing the files...Then I saw a mention on Boing Boing (where else?) of Andromeda. It promised to be a low cost, easy to install web-based media streaming server. The documentation made it look easy to set up, so I signed up and received the 33K file in my inbox in just a few seconds. It took about the same amount of time to unzip the file in the server MP3 directory, and to set up the house server's copy of IIS to use that directory as a virtual directory. I'd recommend setting up a preferences file, as some of the defaults don't quite fit the way I work with music - but that didn't take long to get working, either. While I'm using the ASP version on a Windows server, you also have the option of a PHP script - so it'll run on OS X or pretty much any other OS with a PHP port. It'll even run as a portlet on a Nuke or similar portal site.
So now I have a URL on the house network where I can go to choose the music I want to hear, and see just what's been recently added.
It's an iPod for the web.
I like it. A lot.
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I'll have to faff about and configure Mozilla to use WinAmp to play stuff, I think - MusicMatch doesn't seem to like http, and Quicktime is not really what I want to play music with, but it holds promise nonetheless. And I shall hold you entirely responsible if a new iMac becomes necessary, as is quite possible if both myself and Pete start streaming off it - poor Angua is only 500Mhz/384Mb.
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