Frickin' Sweet
So, I had my little, hacked-together woogie.py script that served music over my network.
Then, I got a real server.
Now, I have mp3act, which is completely awesome. When I’m not behind a NAT firewall, I will have my music (password-protected) available from any location through a web browser and media player.
This is going to be acronym- and technical-term-bingo, but here is the state of my network, at present:
- “cooler” (my desktop XP Media Center Edition computer) is temporarily making its music available over File and Printer Sharing to “joey” (my new Linux server)
- “joey” is using rsync (essentially an advanced file copying program) to replicate the music on “cooler” to a local directory on its own hard drive
- “stpaul” (my Toshiba laptop) is talking to Apache/PHP (web server) on “joey”, streaming music downloads from songs that have already been migrated with rsync
- SSH (a command-line remote control protocol) from “stpaul” to “joey” is monitoring the progress of the file transfer.
Ah… It’s occasionally good to be bored. I’m pushing 802.11g to the max.
