Stream your music: FREE alternative to mob. player
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Topic: Stream your music: FREE alternative to mob. player
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Subject: Stream your music: FREE alternative to mob. player
Date Posted: October 16 2010 at 04:47
EDIT: Just to clarify the subject - I couldn't think of a way to put it properly within the length limitation, so think of it as saying "FREE alternative to mobile players which use built-in storage". Yesterday I read that Audiogalaxy, a company/website that started as an (illegal) audio file sharing platform more than 5 years ago, has now started offering an entirely different service: You can create an account there and download a client application that runs on your computer, scans it for audio files (in the orders which you tell it to include) and then is able to stream them to - anywhere. In short, this means that using this service enables you to listen to your music from another computer (via web browser), or even from a mobile phone (iPhone, Android). The audio content is being streamed live from your computer and not stored on any server - the AudioGalaxy servers only handle the indexing of your files and the technical details of the network connections (e.g. when your computer has a dynamic IP address, you don't need to worry about dyndns or any other technicalities). This of course also means that your computer has to be running (and the AudioGalaxy client app has to be running) in order for you to use the service. In short, this is an opportunity for those who have large audio collections which don't fit on currently available mobile players to listen to their entire collection from anywhere. Of course if you're going to use it on your iPhone or Droid you will need to take into account the amount of data that will be transmitted - unless you're on a flat rate or other plans that include several GB per month, it won't make a lot of sense. I have a 5GB/month plan, so that should work out fine. So give it a try, if you're interested: http://audiogalaxy.com - http://audiogalaxy.com BTW: There are some alternatives:
So ... have you tried one of these services? What are your thoughts about the general idea? ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 10:30
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Just a quick update: Have been using the service several times this weekend, no problems so far - it's officially still in beta status, but it's remarkably stable. The cool thing about this is that I was thinking about getting a mp3 player with bigger storage (my Droid has 8GB) ... but except for the iPod classic (160GB) most currently available players max out at 32GB - there are some that have 64GB, but they're either very pricey or too big and cumbersome. With this service my whole collection (currently about 150GB) is available on the Droid phone. |
Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 15:34
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How is this any better than good ol' shoutcast?
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 15:54
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Audiogalaxy is a tool you can use to listen to your own collection of music from remote clients. It's not like a radio stream - the client looks like a typical music player, you can browse your collection by artist, album and/or search filter and set up playlists and listen to the tracks - which are then streamed from your local computer to the remote client. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 08:06
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^ does this cache? most peoples home upload speeds are a fraction of their download speeds and this relies on uploading from your home PC. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 08:34
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good point - download and upload speed are heavily differing in general... and caching is interesting for those who are fishing for mp3 or flv files ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 08:45
I use Subsonic - I'll be getting a little nettop running Linux for Christmas to act as my music server. It does buffer and cache, in the Android app you can set how big a cache you want on your phone's sdcard. If you've streamed a few albums they'll stick around, so if you have no net connection you can still listen to those albums. Streaming works wonderfully even over 3G, although I have a pretty good upload rate on my home connection (~ 5 Mbps). Mike: agreed, I've ditched my rockbox-hacked iPod and probably won't use it again...now have my entire collection at my fingertips, no need for syncing between iPod and computer, etc.
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Dean wrote:Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 10:56
| n.b. to use the subsonic service that streams to an android device, one needs to cough up about 10 euro |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 13:31
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The Audiogalaxy phone app doesn't cache yet ... I just suggested that they add that feature on their blog. I tried Subsonic - but I couldn't manage to install an encrypted server (SSL), so I uninstalled it again for the time being. It looked cool, but it's definitely more difficult to set up, especially since it doesn't use a centralized server, so you have to deal with how to configure your router, firewall etc.. @Dean: I have a 6Mbps line and that works fine ... typically mp3 files are around 256kbps, so if you have a 5Mbps or 6Mbps line which typically has 368kbps upload bandwidth you should be fine. Mine actually has 1024kbps upstream so it's definitely not a problem. The real limitation for me is the 5GB/month traffic threshold - caching on the phone would definitely help there. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |