Re: Centralised Audio File Repository and Automatic Updating of Clients

["John Nye" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don,

Have you had a look at Xlobby?

I have a server machine that needs to be updated when I add new music, but
the client machines then pick up the changes automatically. I have a number
of sound cards on the server machine supplying audio to different zones so
can control what is playing in any zone from any client.

The documentation seems to suggest that the server can also feed a sound
card in another PC (havn't tried it but no reason to suspect it wouldn't
work) so it could give you ability to play different audio through each
sound card (and the ability to Synch them all if in party mode!).

Mind you Xlobby can do far more than that (I'm just scratching the surface
at the moment).

And its FREE -:)

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Centralised Audio File Repository and Automatic Updating
of Clients


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> Has anyone got a solution to the problem of having a single
centralised
> database of audio files which allows different PCs in the house to
access
> and more importantly, will pick allow multiple clients to
register\update
> themselves of any additions to the database automatically.
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> Most of the packages I have used will allow you to access a network
share
on
> a file server to pick up files but don't automatically update the
client
> software with any new files that are added.
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> I've seen some that will monitor a directory for new additions but my
main
> files are sorted by Artist, Album and consists of nearly 70GB of
stuff. I
> just want an easy way for the various PCs in the house to be able to
pick
up
> additions to the Audio directory without having to go to each PC and
> manually add them in.
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> I quite like iTunes and use that to organise my files automatically
but
that
> doesn't appear to allow you to have multiple itunes clients all using
the
> same library (or does it?). I know you can switch on Muscv Sharing but
this
> has never been completely reliable on some of the older PCs which I've
put
> down to the sheer volume of files.
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> I'd be interested to know how other people get around this problem?
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> Don
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