OT: In-house MP3 Server - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Feb 2002

On Feb 8, 10:28, Cini, Richard wrote:

...
  	Well, my latest spare-hardware-using project (while
I'm waiting for
 parts for other projects to come) is an MP3 server. But I'm torn as to what
...
  OS to use. I was going to use NT Server with Internet
Information Server so
...
  that I could serve up a dynamic clickable catalog. The
I thought that I'd
 just make a simple shared drive and use Media Player to create and manage
 playlists. Then I thought maybe this would be perfect for Linux with Samba
...
  and Apache. 
I'd use Linux (well, actually I'd use IRIX, but the point is "not
Windows")
and Apache.  Definitely not IIS, as it's so full of security problems (to
say nothing of other bugs), it is definitely not safe near any machine that
might conceivable be connected to the internet, even through a modem using
a dynamically assigned IP address.  It *will* get scanned sometime.

All you need do is stick the MP3s in a directory tree under your
DocumentRoot and start Apache.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York