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Jan 19 / Ozymandias

Stream your Personal Music Library over the Web

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Just wanted to share a cool little web script with you called Andromeda, by Turnstyle Software. This script allows you to set up a personal web server to stream your music library to any web-connected device. I use it to access my music from whatever internet-connected PC I happen to be working on.

What’s really slick about Andromeda is that it parses your music directory structure and displays a simple menu to let you navigate your library, play albums or tracks, or even create playlists. I used to use this back in California with compressed music files (due to my limited upstream bandwidth). Thanks to a higher upstream, I’m now able to stream my lossless music. Very cool – check it out if you have a chance!

Oh, and you may also find Turnstyle’s Bitty Browser interesting if you end up using Andromeda. It’s described as picture-in-picture for the web. I think of it as a great Live.com gadget that allows me to access my music from my home page. (Just wish Live.com worked with Safari on the Mac, but that’s a whole other story.)

 

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  • RomeoDude

    That’s pretty cool, but for me, I don’t think it’s worth $20, because I don’t see any real instances where I need to get my music through a web browser(maybe it’d be good for people who want to access it from a PS3 or Wii web browser?).  That would be cool to have on XBox Live (as mentioned by many people in the ‘suggestions for the future’ post): being able to sign on your gamertag from a xbox connected to the internet and accessing all your media from your home PC.

  • http://www.gamingnexus.com Charles

    Very cool.  Have you seen Orb yet (www.orb.com), it’s a media server that sits on your box that allows you to do  audio, video, and pictures for free.  You can also use it to record internet radio stations.  Pretty cool stuff

  • Mike Hermansen

    were you paid to put this on ur blog? (sellout….)

  • Anonymous

    Re: "were you paid to put this on ur blog? (sellout….)"

    You guys crack me up. Yes, this is my new line of business – forget this whole Microsoft thing. I’ll pimp random websites for a career. ;)

    In case that wasn’t clear, no, I was not paid to put this on my blog. Sadly, I fear *I* paid my $20 bucks just like you’ll have to. Personally, well worth it for me. YMMV.

  • Mike Hermansen

    I was just kidding…

  • http://www.leonelson.com/blog/ Leo Nelson

    I came across something called Jinzora ( http://www.jinzora.com/ ) that I believe can do something very similar.

  • Jason

    I’ll second Charles – that’s neat and all, but it doesn’t look as cool as Orb.

  • Ranger7722

    Does anybody know if a PSP web browser could handle this kind of stuff?  That would be really cool.

  • Anonymous

    Re: "Does anybody know if a PSP web browser could handle this kind of stuff?  That would be really cool."

    That’s a great question… I’ll have to try. I enabled WMA on my PSP, so there’s a chance.

  • Ranger7722

    Cool, if you figure out it would be great if you could shoot me an email.

    Ranger755@gmail.com

    Good luck!