So, I don't use spotify, or whatever it is your guys are using to post your music (and subsequently, I can't view it :/ ). Instead, I have a server that I use to stream my music to any device I want to listen to it on (and i can download/cache it for offline listening). I have made you guys a guest account, and you can check it out here: http://media.net1.thelenon.com username : guest password: guest
+9001 for Subsonic. Love that. Used to run once until a drive crash took out my library and I went to Spotify out of frustration.
ha. Subsonic is amazing. I keep all of my music on a NAS and mount it. I've lost track of how many times I've rebuilt a server for it now >.< But,I love that I can stream it, and it has apps for most things. My mom has one for her android phone, my girlfriend and I have one for our phones, I have it on my Roku, got it setup to stream for my grandparents. So awesome. I have plans for making a better NAS for all my media, but I need to replace the motherboard I got and am broke :/ gonna run a number of 750GB drives in RAID10 for redunandancy and performance, and use that to mount to my media servers (in addition to subsonic for music, I run plex for movies and videos). Should give me a few TBs worth of redundant storage. Haven't decided if I'm using FreeNAS or NAS4Free yet...
nice. Yeah, i used to use FreeNAS, but that was before they split, which is why I'm not sure what to use now
I feel like this thread belongs in tech now. I've usually stuck with Ubuntu or Debian for my media servers, though perhaps I should give the NAS packages another try. I did try NexentaStor once - it was interesting but awkward. Very much an enterprise option, I was wasting CPU cycles on all sorts of crazy features that I had no use for outside a datacenter. Used to run a 2TB RAID6. It was geeky fun but so fragile that a dirty look would start it rebuilding. Or hard locked. I think I had heat issues with my SATA controller card, plus the card really needed a 64bit PCI slot to shine and I had it crammed in an old board with only half the bandwidth. Rebuilds would take days. Tore that apart, running everything off a single 2TB drive now. About to add a 2nd just for additional storage - lots of kids movies these days. I've skipped redundancy on my video library, and use BTSync to keep important stuff distributed among all my various desktops and the file server, and a variety of cloud services on my desktop to put it online.. In a few different places. Though.. The current box started life as a Ubuntu XBMC machine, and non-stop graphics driver problems drove me back to Plex/Roku. So, I'm in need of a reinstall to strip the GUI and get it a bit more power efficient. Might go Debian this time - I usually cycle back and forth.
well, I run subsonic on ubuntu server LTS, and then store the media on a NAS, and mount it to the media server. That way if the media server crashes (I have bad luck, since I broke and just make a frankenstein from my old computer parts), the media is still there. Sounds like you have lots of fun too
i just run ubuntu - I have an XBMC install - but that distro is frustrating, Im planning on turning it into my pfsense box (my router is a bitch). I have zero redundancy (yikes) - Im running 4 individual 3 tb blacks, all mounted to my main ubuntu box - that runs some headless virtualbox vm's (been playing with headless, it's pretty fun). Now have that running munin, and opennms.
I like redundancy. or maybe it's a side-effect of being a good admin.... pfsense is awesome. I have a small intel atom desktop with 2 ethernet ports running pfsense as my router and firewall. Been running for a while (years) and haven't had any issues. Also, as for those other choices. I like to have my own music available where ever, whenever. And I store it in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), so it's a near perfect backup as well. AND, I can cache the music, depending on the app (my iPhone app can), so i can listen to my music offline. No subscription fees, no time limits, no poor quality (as in youtube). It's pretty nice.
I have updated my music server to the latest version, and fixed issues I previously had with not mounting music correctly. Old login details still work
