Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How To Setup Streaming Music Server

Zeya is a lightweight music streamer. It's written in Python and Javascript which means it does not require as much resources as Java based streamers would need. Zeya uses about 10-20MB ram idle. When there is music streamed from the server to you there is a trans-coding process which uses also a tad of ram, but don't expect it to hit above the 80MB ram.

To play music from your server you need a browser which supports HTML5. The browsers which are known to work with Zeya are:
 * Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or later
 * Google Chrome or Chromium
 * Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 on Windows with the Google Chrome Frame plugin

The client runs in any browser that supports a certain subset of the HTML 5 technologies— no Flash needed. No Silverlight, no applets, no plugins, no external players. 

Installing and running Zeya:
Open terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get  install zeya
The most common way to start Zeya is to ask it to load and serve all the music within a given directory:
zeya --path=/path/to/your/music
(Zeya creates a zeya.db file in that directory to cache song metadata.)
Then visit http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.




Read more: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-setup-streaming-music-server.html#ixzz26oj3Qp5Y

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