So I've gotten rather pissy with my media/fileserver running on windows and the bluescreen on boot was the last straw.
Since I kept the data on separate drives from the OS I was OK there. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I was able to move all my data around and set the drives up as ext3 and I have them set properly in fstab so they're mounted at boot.
The main thing I use my server for is UPnP streaming to my Xbox for watching movies that I've created backups of (so the kids can't scratch/lose the discs), file storage and music streaming.
On windows I had just created shares for file storage (now using Samba), used PS3MediaServer for UPnP services (still using this as it's java, though a lot of time has been spent getting it working the right way under linux) but I've found a hole in the web based music streaming that was previously filled by www.jukefly.com - it has an app that resides on your machine and indexes your music and allows you to stream it. They don't have a linux build but have been "working on one" - I saw subsonic but the interface leaves something to be desired.
Does anyone know of any web based music streaming applications that will work in the same manner as jukefly? I dont want constant streams of random music, I want to be able to pick what I want to listen to, make playlists etc.
Thanks!
Since I kept the data on separate drives from the OS I was OK there. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I was able to move all my data around and set the drives up as ext3 and I have them set properly in fstab so they're mounted at boot.
The main thing I use my server for is UPnP streaming to my Xbox for watching movies that I've created backups of (so the kids can't scratch/lose the discs), file storage and music streaming.
On windows I had just created shares for file storage (now using Samba), used PS3MediaServer for UPnP services (still using this as it's java, though a lot of time has been spent getting it working the right way under linux) but I've found a hole in the web based music streaming that was previously filled by www.jukefly.com - it has an app that resides on your machine and indexes your music and allows you to stream it. They don't have a linux build but have been "working on one" - I saw subsonic but the interface leaves something to be desired.
Does anyone know of any web based music streaming applications that will work in the same manner as jukefly? I dont want constant streams of random music, I want to be able to pick what I want to listen to, make playlists etc.
Thanks!