[SFS] Free Software for Music Server?

David L. Willson dlwillson@sofree.us
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:00:04 -0600 (MDT)


That looks very promising.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hanson" <skylinkdave@gmail.com>
To: "sfs" <sfs@thegeek.nu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:21:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SFS] Free Software for Music Server?

Here's another media server package that might do what you want. I do
not have any experience with UMS, only Plex:

http://www.universalmediaserver.com/

Dave


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:35 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson@thegeek.nu> wrote:
> OK y'all,
>
> Have a look at this post. http://www.sofree.us/?p=179202
>
> Tell me what I forgot.
>
>
> --
> David L. Willson
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>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ________________________________
>
> I'm in.  I stood up OwnCloud a while back and never got to mess around with
> it much. I'd like to play more.  ;-)
>
> Matt
>
>
> Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy NoteĀ® II
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "David L. Willson"
> Date:03/30/2015 8:15 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Matt James , sfs
> Subject: Re: [SFS] Free Software for Music Server?
>
> Maybe I judged OwnCloud too soon. It handles pictures in the browser, at
> least on Ubuntu, so I'm tempted to believe that if I add some thingies to
> it, it'll handle music and movies in-browser, too. Hmm...
>
> Recommendations have been Plex, subsonic/madsonic, and your mp3mystic.
>
> I think we should have a hacking Saturday in May, with no particular agenda
> except to eat muffins, drink coffee (and/or Scotch) and figure out how to do
> this without proprietary software. Sound like fun?
>
> --
> David L. Willson
> Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
> RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA
> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> http://sofree.us
>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ________________________________
>
> Once upon a time I used mp3mystic which pretty much did all of the music
> stuff you talked about.  But it's been a few years since I've messed with
> it.
>
> Matt
>
>
> Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy NoteĀ® II
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "David L. Willson"
> Date:03/30/2015 6:14 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: sfs
> Subject: [SFS] Free Software for Music Server?
>
> I'm trying to solve what I think is an interesting problem. Since I love
> interesting problems, I figure you might, too, and maybe one of you already
> knows a good solution or a part of it.
>
> Mrs. Willson and I have a pretty large collection of music files (mp3, ogg,
> and flac).
>
> We'd like to add to it from our CD collection. That's pretty easy.
>
> We'd also like to use the collection from any old computer, iPhone, or
> Android. Less easy.
>
> And wouldn't it be great if we could enjoy our videos the same way, and
> easily add any of our DVD's or Blu-Ray's to that collection. Yeah, not so
> easy, as far as I can tell.
>
> And then, wouldn't it be especially great if we could do our own "Internet
> Radio" station, queuing (and maybe uploading) tracks for each other to
> listen to, like turntable.fm used to?
>
> I've played with Kodi (f.k.a. XBMC) and it does a few of these things, but
> not all. The other day, someone mentioned Plex, but I have no idea what that
> does. I *finally* got time to load OwnCloud, which I thought would be
> perfect for this, but it's really not, or I haven't figured it out yet.
>
> Does anything do it all? Is there anything you've used, that is great for
> this sort of thing?
>
> --
> David L. Willson
> Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
> RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA
> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> http://sofree.us
>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
>
>
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