[solved] Subsonic (Was: Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver))

2013-01-21 Thread Steven Post
[...] > Myself on some arbitrary date: > > Another user from this list (replied off list) hinted at subsonic, > > which > > seems to fit the bill very nicely. Debian/Ubuntu package is available > > from the website, but not the Debian repositories. [...] > > I'll have a look at that as well. At f

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would depend on the usage, consider this: - find an old jukebox - strip the old (defective?) hardware - insert cheap modern computer hardware - include touchscreen for song selection I'm seriously considering something like that. The web interface would be ideal for parties were people can

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 21:48 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > I had a look at this yesterday, you can combine the mpd package with > > the > > fookebox package, that last one is a web interface for mpd. > > Sounds interesting, maybe I'll try to take some time to test it, > be

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would also mean different tcp ports for each instance, which is cumbersome with regards to the firewall and possibly proxy servers the client needs to pass Did not thought about that problem. I have some basic understanding of network stuff, but would have never thought about that issue

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 04:12 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > So, the actual solution you are using is using a www website which > distributes m3u files, and the user just use that m3u which point to a > web address, it the user's music software is just playing the stream? B

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.12.2012 20:25, Steven Post a écrit : On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking > for > but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm > wanting to have a go at). I wi

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking > > for > > but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm > > wanting to have a go at). I will look further into it. > Yes, it's gr

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking for but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm wanting to have a go at). I will look further into it. Yes, it's great for jukeboxes, but not only :) And you know what? I'll try to show you that I'm rig

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 17:58 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > [...] > > You asked for an alternative to the client, but I will give you both > server and client alternatives. > > I am using mpd (music player daemon) which is playing my music, and > have no interface (it's a daemon

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.12.2012 14:36, Steven Post a écrit : Hi, Could anyone recommend a viable alternative to obsidianmusic? It appears to be unmaintained and has some issues where not all music is accessible. What is obsidianmusic? It is a web interface to your amarok music library (when using mysql as th

obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread Steven Post
Hi, Could anyone recommend a viable alternative to obsidianmusic? It appears to be unmaintained and has some issues where not all music is accessible. What is obsidianmusic? It is a web interface to your amarok music library (when using mysql as the DB back-end), so that music can be streamed ove