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How would one stream a personal music collection from point A to point B? All my music files are on a hard drive at home (point A), but I'd like to access them from work during the week (point B). I'm trying to avoid having to maintain two identical hard drives at separate locations.
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It seems my best option is to keep two drives.
Maintaining redundant hard drives at each location is probably your best bet. And all you'd need to do is to load updated/new files on to a USB stick at home and then copy them to the work drive.
This has several advantages: it doesn't tax your work network and/or bring you under the scrutiny of the workplace's admins (and some of them are real dicks), and it gives you redundancy for all of your files.
It is a bit of a pain, but unless you download a pant load of files every day, copying the new/updated files to the USB stick should only take a minute or so...
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Streaming out of your home has securities issues as it exposes your server to the world. In addition, many home users have slow upload speeds, so streaming decent quality may be impractical. You are also putting a load on your work network, and the network administrators may not appreciate this, especially if lots of people start doing this.
Keep a second hard drive at work. It can serve a dual purpose: allow you to listen to your music library and serve as an offsite backup. Use file sync software to keep the two drives synchronized. It will take only a few minutes to scan your two drives and determine what needs to be copied. Copying can be fast as it can be done locally.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Is there any file sync software that you recommend?
JE
I have been using SyncBackPro. You can run it as a scheduled batch job or you can run it manually. when you run it manually you get a list of files that differ and you can tell it what to do.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
JE
that the sound quality of my streamed music is better than google or iTunes solutions. Maybe I've just been lucky--knock on wood--but I'm very happy with my set-up and the practicality of my solution.
You'll need to set your router up for port forwarding. Plenty of info on JRiver's forum. I have all my home music digital files available wherever I go as long as there is an internet connection. I'm sure there are also similar Apple apps too if that's your preference. It's a bit of an education, but well worth doing. Good luck.
You should use a 2nd HD
at least it would serve as a b/u in case. Easy to update just by carrying the updates to it in a thumb drive.
Google music lets you upload your music and stream it through their browser or mobile device app. I think this is free or you can subscribe for $10/month and access 25M tracks. ITunes will read and sync your tracks for $25/year.
uploading my 3.7 TBs of music would take the rest of the decade. There is no need for me to pay to do what I do for free with no effort to speak of.
Especially to Google.
Just to clarify the upload part is free as is access to those files. $10/mo allows access to 25m 320kbps tracks and requires no uploads but unlike apple will upload non released or out of print files. Sorry you don't like Google and your DSL line won't keep up with streaming media anyways.
to store some pix. 3.7TB of music is out of the question. I can stream radio and video just fine but I have no interest in storing music up there....There is no point, I have redundant back ups on and off site and can carry all I need when I travel.
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