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Scott, I really like Andromeda aand will continue to use it. What I probly will do is put a password on it and take public access away. The only thing that would prevent me from running both publically is bandwidth.

Thanks again Scott, I linked to Andromeda so that people would try it. I recommend every one run the PHP version on top of Apache like me. (in the spirit of open source of course)

Hey, I take that personally ;)

fwiw, you can certainly run Andromeda alongside any other system (you don't need to choose). Each will have different advantages for different circumstnaces. -Scott

Downloaded and tried it a few minutes ago. The system set to default settings found three streams. They all seemed to stream well, I liked the "Soma Tribute" stream alot. All in all everything works as advertised. I'm (easily?) impressed with what they have done. But more content is needed, more people need to put up "stations."

I'll be taking down my andromeda server and replacing it with a Peercast stream in the next few days.

You agree not to copy or distribute this software or change the source code without prior written permission ... Unauthorized copying, distribution, modification, public display, or public performance of copyrighted works is an infringement of the copyright holders' rights.
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Andromeda was designed to be easy-to-use *and* fully-featured at the same time. It auto-configures and doesn't requre a database. It doesn't use Flash or Java. And it has been tweaked and tuned in response to feedback from tens of thousands of users over two years. All I want is that you at least check it out. -Scott

In my biassed opinion, Andromeda is consistantly among Freshmeat's most popular MP3 projects for a reason. Anyways, the free version is free.

If you're looking for an easy way to share MP3s, OGGs and other files between friends, you might be interested in my software Andromeda, which dynamically builds streaming web sites with PHP or ASP. It's not dependent on any centralized service. Take a look & I hope you like it. -Scott

I've been providing streaming MP3 software for about 2 years, and had hoped that my 'tryware' approach would work. It doesn't. I have tens of thousands of users, and I've received thousands of positive emails, but I'd say that less than 0.5% ever gave anything.

You just can't support a full-time effort by relying on generosity. I still offer a free trial, but I now also have commercial versions for sale, and I only wish that I made that move a year ago.

I'd be curious to get a sense about how you feel about PayPal and *your* country.

(fwiw, I care because I use it to sell my software, and I've got lots of international users)

I think that they prefer to keep us passive consumers of their content, and that upstream poses a legitimate threat to big media hegemony.

For instance, you could easily use Andromeda to serve MPGs of your July 4th BBQ, and I'd rather watch some of that than another episode of Buffy.

I take this personally because I make software, Andromeda, that builds streaming web sites from collections of MP3s. Some folks run it on a server at home (PHP or ASP) so that they can play their home collection while at work (or elsewhere).

Capping upstream prevents people from fully enjoying the potential of the network.

fwiw, Andromeda has been well received on Freshmeat. -Scott

My software project Andromeda builds streaming sites from collections of MP3s and other files (PHP & ASP). Groups of friends often use it to stream to each other. It's P2P not in the mass anonymous download kind of way, but more like friend2friend. Please check it out.

I am using a similar approach but since I am still on a dialup, I can only dialin to get remote access, which works but SLOW..

I have roughly 10 computers in the house and 4 users.
I have one main Linux machine with several 40GB drives that basically holds everything for the Linux and Windows clients (some dual boot, some static) and the web server (another Linux machine).

The main Linux machine has Samba and NFS. All other Linux machines mount a single /home and the Win clients map the same homes through a login script. I use IMAP locally and Fetchmail for remote mail. I choose not to use roaming profiles in Windows but I still use domain logins and modified the resistry to store Favorites, My Documents, Temporary Int Files, Cookies, and a few others in the homes share also. K-meleon is just as easy. I have access to any of my files, email, bookmarks, Open Office docs, any fonts and whatever else I need from any Linux or Win computer in the house simply by logging in as myself.. I have a seperate share for my MP3's which are availble to all clients and NFS'd over to my web server where I use a php script called Andromeda to format and make them look nice from a web browser, there are tons that use SQL but I'm not that advanced yet..
The only thing I need to backup is /home and a few of the other smaller shares on the main server. My tape drive in only 2GB so I simply tgz it and send it over to my Linux web server weekly via cron.

It works through SSH, so everthing is encrypted.

I use this with the konqueror file browser, but all KDE apps can transparently access files on remote hosts using this amazing utility, which required no special setup on either end, at least on my systems.

Solved all my data sharing needs - and andromeda solved the rest :)