Remote Amarok music collection?

[Marko Vojinovic]

Hi folks! :-)

I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved
functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection.

So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
over http and play them one by one.

I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text
file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it
would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want
is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI
regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc.

Amarok doesn't appear to have a "load playlist from a txt file" kind of option.

N.B. I've been using Amarok for about 20 minutes total, so please tell
me that I have missed something really obvious. ;-)

:-)
Marko

[Mark Haney]

Hi folks! :-)

I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved
functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection.

So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
over http and play them one by one.

I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text
file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it
would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want
is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI
regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc.

I gotta tell you, if you have it all on an HTTP server, why not use icecast?  Or one of the either streaming media servers?  I use icecast for mine since I have my MP3 jukebox (with 6TB of Mp3s) sitting in my server room and can stream that to anyone in the house who wants it.  There are even customised playlists for the kids and things.  Although, IIRC  those I setup to pick music in certain folders, that way there was no real configuration issues for me.

Marko
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[Martin Airs]

On Thursday 04 Oct 2012 16:55:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Hi folks! :-)
>
> I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved
> functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection.
>
> So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
> server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
> short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
> having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
> them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
> files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
> The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
> over http and play them one by one.
>
> I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text
> file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it
> would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want
> is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI
> regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc.
>
> Amarok doesn't appear to have a "load playlist from a txt file" kind of
> option.
>
> N.B. I've been using Amarok for about 20 minutes total, so please tell
> me that I have missed something really obvious. ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> Marko

Have a look at Ampache (http://ampache.org)

I have mp3's in my OwnCloud, and that uses ampache to serve them to me using 
Amarok

I haven't installed ampache as a stand alone thing, but I think with a little 
reading of the documentation it shouldn't be too hard, and it'll do what your 
after

Amarok supports ampache btw

Hope that helps

Martin

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Thursday, 4. October 2012. 16.38.09 Martin Airs wrote:
> On Thursday 04 Oct 2012 16:55:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
> > server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
> > short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
> > having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
> > them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
> > files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
> > The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
> > over http and play them one by one.
>
> Have a look at Ampache (http://ampache.org)

Yes, I have looked at both ampache and icecast (suggested by Mark Haney), and 
some other streaming servers.

But the streaming server seems to be an overkill for my purposes. All I want 
is to put a "http://www.server.com/somefile.mp3" into the Amarok collection 
(local database, remote files), so that I can play it.

A streaming server would require some work in installation/setup on the 
server, which I am not willing to do. I would prefer the client-only solution, 
if there is one, since I expect it to be much simpler (both conceptually and 
in practice).

Thanks for the thoughts, though! :-)

Best, :-)
Marko

[Ranbir]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 00:08 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> A streaming server would require some work in installation/setup on the 
> server, which I am not willing to do. I would prefer the client-only solution, 
> if there is one, since I expect it to be much simpler (both conceptually and 
> in practice).

Try out subsonic - it's fantastic.  Dead easy to setup, and there are
clients available for many, many different platforms.  You can even just
use the web interface to listen to your music.

Bonus: it also lets you stream your videos!

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

I have it running on an OpenMediaVault server (I have OMV virtualized
via KVM). OpenMediaVault is probably the best Linux based NAS distro out
there.

Regards,

Ranbir