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Title: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 08, 2014, 22:54:51 PM
I've spent a good hour now trying to find some simple software that will allow me to stream music from my computer/network at home to my office computer and it seems there is nothing good out there.

Options so far seem to be Foobar2000 with a plugin component thats a lot of faff
Windows Media Player :gag: (no FLAC support either)
iTunes & AirPlay? (as above + :sick: )
Spotify, but I don't want to pay to avoid ads and I already know it doesn't have everything in my collection

Any thoughts/suggestions? I took a glance at building my own web server with apache/node and streaming from that but thats the buggest f**k about going.

I could copy my music collection to my office PC via USB pen, but I'm not keen on the idea as it's not exactly kosher.
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 08, 2014, 23:36:48 PM
Seems I might have found an answer:

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp


This is actually really good and quite a doddle to setup via web interface, just need to test it externally now :tinhat:
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: XEntity on February 09, 2014, 15:31:38 PM
Have you had a play with Plex as all?

I'm now becoming a Plex fanboy!

Basically I have access to all my media (and my friends media) where ever I am, and on which ever device I want it!

It streams via web/dedicated software/ phone apps/ tv apps/DLNA and also supports airplay if you have an iphone (although haven't tried it)

Just added my music collection in now and it seems to work, although I expect depends on if you want to build playlists or just play albums.
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: DEViANCE on February 09, 2014, 18:16:20 PM
I use googleplay music seems to work for me, takes ages to upload all the music the first time though.
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 09, 2014, 19:45:09 PM
I didn't look at Plex actually, but this is quite lightweight and seems to work great for what I need it for, I won't even have to install anything at work, just load the web interface from my browser using my IP address.
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: jukeboxteam on March 05, 2014, 11:53:42 AM
Check out Style Jukebox.

The app automatically syncs your music across all your devices. It support Windows, Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
Title: Re: Streaming my music collection from home to office
Post by: soopahfly on March 05, 2014, 18:28:37 PM
No.  Not with this sort of advertising practice.