[lug] Music manager

[Ken MacFerrin]

Daniel Webb wrote:
> I'm looking for a good music jukebox that stores music centrally but can play
> and interface on any remote machine (with a 100 GB collection).  My current
> solution (madman running at each station with the collection accessed over
> NFS) works, but is lacking in a lot of ways.  I've heard good things about
> Amarok, but never been able to get it to work (the version in Debian stable
> crashes loading my collection, and I can't get any of the backports to
> install).  When I last evaluated all the jukeboxes I could find, madman was
> one of the only ones I found that didn't crash on a very large collection.
> The other ones that didn't crash were still so buggy they were nearly unusable
> (netjuke comes to mind), so madman was really the only thing in Debian that
> worked for me.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Debian should have another stable in another year and a half
> or so, should I just wait for Amarok to work in Debian?
> 

I have about 20G on a samba share and access that using Amarok under
gentoo on my workstation and debian on my laptop without issue.  If you
don't already, I would make sure you have your music stored in
subdirectories (ie: by artist) versus all the songs in one large directory..
-Ken