The Shocker
Super Member
Hello all, new member here. I was there was a thread on streaming and thought I would point out that you can host your own streaming service. There are two different products I use:
Subsonic: http://www.subsonic.org
Ampache: http://www.ampache.org
These programs will give you a web interface to play music, or you can install any number of Subsonic clients on your phone or PC and stream to your hearts content out of your house to your phone at work or on the bus.
You can also transcode on the fly. So, you have a library full of FLACs. Either product can convert on the fly to MP3, AAC or any other lossy codec and send the much smaller file to your phone, so it doesn't kill your data usage.
Not affiliated with either product. Just a huge fan.
Subsonic: http://www.subsonic.org
Ampache: http://www.ampache.org
These programs will give you a web interface to play music, or you can install any number of Subsonic clients on your phone or PC and stream to your hearts content out of your house to your phone at work or on the bus.
You can also transcode on the fly. So, you have a library full of FLACs. Either product can convert on the fly to MP3, AAC or any other lossy codec and send the much smaller file to your phone, so it doesn't kill your data usage.
Not affiliated with either product. Just a huge fan.