Streaming own music collection over 3G

Cheetah Designs · 10 May 2011 at 16:03

Just wondered if anyone does this?

What are the options available and how do they compare? I currently know of Spotify and Ubuntu One services which all you todo it...are there any others?

Does anyone do this?....does it work well?

Thanks.

Jongo · 10 May 2011 at 16:13

Google is meant to be announcing their music streaming service today at their I/O meeting, rumours say that they will be allowing 20gb of free storage space :O

Cheetah Designs · 10 May 2011 at 16:54

Will it be available in the UK?

scoopex · 10 May 2011 at 17:34

Cheetah Designs said:
Will it be available in the UK?

USA only

http://music.google.com/about/

branddaly · 10 May 2011 at 17:44

Cheetah Designs said:
Just wondered if anyone does this?

What are the options available and how do they compare? I currently know of Spotify and Ubuntu One services which all you todo it...are there any others?

Does anyone do this?....does it work well?

Thanks.

I used the trail on Ubuntu, and quickly released how much space I'd need. Bit of google and I saw that it was based on sub-sonic, so I've installed that and I'm now streaming my music from home to my phone using that. It also caches a lot of the music, set to 10gb, so I can download the majority of stuff using wifi at home in advance, it only when I want something thats not in the cache that it comes over the 3g.

As a solution it works really well, obivously I only have access to music I already own, but thats not too much of an issue for me; I'm not tied into a subscription, so it doesn't incur any additional cost over time.

Cheetah Designs · 11 May 2011 at 15:19

branddaly said:
I used the trail on Ubuntu, and quickly released how much space I'd need. Bit of google and I saw that it was based on sub-sonic, so I've installed that and I'm now streaming my music from home to my phone using that. It also caches a lot of the music, set to 10gb, so I can download the majority of stuff using wifi at home in advance, it only when I want something thats not in the cache that it comes over the 3g.

As a solution it works really well, obivously I only have access to music I already own, but thats not too much of an issue for me; I'm not tied into a subscription, so it doesn't incur any additional cost over time.

Do you have to have a subsonic server for this? Or can it work with ftp or something?