Does anyone stream music from their home machine? What's your setup? I just set this script up and am absolutely thrilled with it. I have done this for a while but was using an older less useful script called Mp3 Toolbox.
If anyone wants to set this up I can try and point you down the right road.
Note: This isn't about sharing mp3s with the world at large, for me it's password protected and allows me to listen to my collection from work.
Orb does that and more. However, it's an unstable, bloated resource hog.
I use Orb from my XP machine, though part of me really wishes there was a simple (and robust) solution (like Orb) available for OS X. I've checked out Andromeda, but it doesn't seem nearly as comprehensive or flexible as Orb. But Orb is free, and I don't do much else with that PC anyway, so it seems to work.
The main problem I have with it appears to be its inability to read AAC tags as encoded by iTunes. I'd prefer to have my music as AAC files, but whenever I rip something in that format, it simply doesn't show up in the Orb browser. 
As for stability, I haven't had any issues with recent builds - even streaming to my Xbox 360 works like a charm. I don't know about resources - as I said, my PC mostly collects dust anyway.
I've read that Vibe Streamer is a decent alternative...
I tried and did not like Orb for the reason's Gorilla gives. I pretty much have something against anything that runs in the system tray. Apache has a pretty small footprint and Andromeda is only 1 file (you could add a custom config and skins file). I guess I'm just in the less is more camp.
I tried the windows streaming built into Windows Server 2003 and it sucked balls.
Does Andromeda give you the ability to search all of your music files by artist, genre, year, album, etc? Or create playlists on the fly? Or download those files to your local machine?
Does Andromeda give you the ability to search all of your music files by artist, genre, year, album, etc? Or create playlists on the fly? Or download those files to your local machine?
You can search but I think it's just by file or folder name. It seems to be pretty accurate though. You can create playlists on the fly and you can download to local machine.
If you would like to see it in action pm me and I'll set you up with a temp account to my page.
Slimserver is a very good piece of software. It'll drive most players that will do MP3 streaming, and if you're bandwidth-limited upstream, it'll do a re-encode to fit into whatever you have available. And it remembers on a per-player basis (based on IP, I believe), so Winamp at home gets the full original files, but Winamp at work gets a CBR-encoded 128kbit file instead (or whatever you specify, if you have more upstream than that.)
The software REALLY shines when you have a Squeezebox. Slimserver comes with a near-perfect Java emulator of the Squeezebox hardware, so you can fiddle around and see what the hardware will do. I actually use Softsqueeze as a third station in my network; it doesn't sound quite as good, because it's going through the Java libraries and Windows sound, but hey... it's free 
As Eezy says, it runs on pretty much everything.
One note: release versions of Slimserver tend to be buggy. Very buggy. Want-to-hunt-down-and-throttle-the-devs buggy. They warn you on the page not to download the nightly builds because they are 'unstable'. This is exactly backwards to what's actually true: you want to run the nightlies, because they'll always be in better shape. Those guys think that 'stable' means 'the code isn't changing', not 'the code works'. So once they release a 'stable' version, even if it doesn't run, it will stay up for weeks until it's fixed. Slimserver, um, 6.2, I think it was, was up for three or four weeks as the 'stable' release when it didn't -- and couldn't possibly -- work on Linux, because they moved some files around at the last minute and didn't do any testing.
Trust me: you want to download the nightly version of the STABLE branch (not the development branch, which is ugly) and run that. Running release Slimserver is chancy.
I have a good Linux nightly build I've been running a long time if anyone needs it.
Hmm, I'll have to try Andromeda out. I mess around with 3 different programs that I run on my home XP box. Subsonic, Ampache, and Vibestreamer. Right now I'm using ampache since it also supports last.fm (I think subsonic does also but you can't seek within a stream).
Just remembered one more benefit of using Orb - it now streams all my music to my Xbox 360 as well. Anyone know of other solutions that can take care of that + web serving in the same app?
Hmm, I'll have to try Andromeda out. I mess around with 3 different programs that I run on my home XP box. Subsonic, Ampache, and Vibestreamer. Right now I'm using ampache since it also supports last.fm (I think subsonic does also but you can't seek within a stream).
Wow, I didn't realize there were this many streaming solutions. I tried all three but found things I didn't like with all 3.
Subsonic is cool but I couldn't figure out how to add all of the tracks in the play list to the player, it only listed one then would reload another file once the first finished. I like being able to hop around on the actual player, not the website. Also, and this is huge, I couldn't search within a track (just realized you mentioned this). I did like the ability to download zipped albums though. Lastly, Java scares me.
Ampache was also very cool but I had some problems with my configuration and it seemed a bit bloated.
Vibe Streamer's flash player was cool but limited features and no obvious download ability sent me right back to Andromeda.
Opinions will vary no doubt as everyone is looking for something a little different but for now I'm sticking with Andromeda.
Hey, ViebStreamer is really nice!! However, it doesn't seem like I can get to my home PC via the corporate firewall. Can anyone try it for me?
http://71.172.56.36:8081
l/p: guest/guest
Gorilla, that looks like you need to forward a port or ports on your firewall. Not connecting for me.
I did add a port forwarding rule on my router. Will need to check again. Thanks for verifying for me though!
I'm still not connecting this morning, at 7am Eastern. Depending on your router, you may have to do two things: first, redirect the port to the right machine (that is, aim external ip:external port at internal ip:internal port), and second, add a rule to pass incoming traffic on the external port.
Most consumer firewalls do the second step automatically, but you might need to do it yourself.
Also remember that if you are running Windows firewalling, you'll need to add a pass rule to that too.
Hmm, I'll have to try Andromeda out. I mess around with 3 different programs that I run on my home XP box. Subsonic, Ampache, and Vibestreamer. Right now I'm using ampache since it also supports last.fm (I think subsonic does also but you can't seek within a stream).
I've been playing with Orb and Winamp Remote (a winamp-specific Orb version), but as Gdawg27 pointed out, I really want last.fm support to boot. I hate the Orb web interface. Lately I've just been mapping my home drive while at work and listening to songs at full quality, however I do get the ocassional stutter. I would prefer a more bandwidth-friendly approach while still scrobbling the tracks I'm playing.
I'll try a few of the suggested ones and see how it goes. I'm glad someone made this thread because it's been something I've been looking into doing for the past couple of weeks.
Edit: I should note I'm also trying to avoid setting up a fullblown webserver to do this since I moved to paid webhosting options because I hated the hassle of setting up a site locally on my machine.
Slimserver comes with its own tiny webserver built right in: you access it via any normal browser. In fact, the remote control and the web browser are the only two interfaces to the program.
Might as well post when I find something that hasn't been mentioned. Been messing around with Jinzora and it's pretty good. Took me a little time to configure it but that's because I like to explore all the options, it only took me a few minutes to get it running.
Hmm, I'll have to try Andromeda out. I mess around with 3 different programs that I run on my home XP box. Subsonic, Ampache, and Vibestreamer. Right now I'm using ampache since it also supports last.fm (I think subsonic does also but you can't seek within a stream).
Rise dead thread!
Gdawg27 I've setup ampache but my last.fm client is not picking up playback of the streams in winamp or WMP. Any suggestions?
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the built-in plugin!
I just come across this thread and think I can recommend you guys another nice online streaming server software RaidenTunes
I hope it's not too late.
Has anyone tried the built-in streaming that's in the newest Windows 7 build?
Has anyone tried the built-in streaming that's in the newest Windows 7 build?
Not yet but I have the x64 RC installed on my new laptop. I'll have to set it up this week and give it a try.
You could try this
I know the guys and though it locks you into Itunes IF your already using Itunes this is a good streaming solution.
Friend of mine is trying this out: http://en.jinzora.com/
Supports transcoding and multiple users. Don't have first hand experience with it yet but I'll post my impressions if my friend finishes putting it up this weekend.
Dear fstarta,
I'm interested in your feedback regarding Jinzora. I'm looking to put this on my Mac Snow Leopard Mini at home for remote iPhone access.
Thanks
Amazon also just started their cloud service last night. You can upload up to 5GB of music free and stream it to PCs or smart phones. You can buy more space if you need it.
I think this is an interesting movement-- wonder what the long turn ramifications are if tech continues clouding up as such.
Pages