[lug] Music manager

[Kevin Burns]

If you want a webbased jukebox you can try http://www.jinzora.com/.  You can
get it
to stream audio to the person acessing it, or you can set it up to use a
player such as music player daemon (www.musicpd.org) and have it access the
nfs share to play the files using that.


On 6/16/06, Ken MacFerrin <lists at macferrin.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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