by rvonder » Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:47 pm
Since I started this thread, I hope you'll forgive my necroposting...
Lots has happened over the two years since my original post. Mobile broadband has become much faster and more reliable, and real-time streaming of media to Android and iPhone devices is now even more popular vs. physically duplicating (syncing) media files to the limited storage of the mobile device.
But AFAIK, we're still in the same place re. the inability to use MM as an internet streaming media server (I'm talking about 'real' streaming via standard HTTP/HTTPS, not using uPnP/DLNA). I've spent a lot of time trying both of the decent audio-oriented third-party solutions I've found in an effort to fill the gap (Subsonic and Ampache; there are others like Plex but they seem more targeted at video), and there are frustrating limitations and a lot of extra work with either one.
Like most of you, I use MM exclusively to organize and tag my music library. But I have yet to find anything even close to the flexibility of the MM client interface to remotely access and stream my music collection. If MM offered true Web access, you'd have a solution to an increasingly common user need that no other product can address. Ideally, it would include multi-user login security, a responsive-design browser interface, plus standalone Android and iOS clients that expose most of the flexibility of MM's native interface, such as searching/sorting/displaying of secondary tags such as Composer, Conductor, Comments, multiple art images, etc. Extra credit if it could also incorporate the Subsonic API like Ampache does, which expands access to include direct use of any of the many Subsonic client apps.
Being able to use a single great tool like MM to maintain my library and to then have that library instantly accessible for streaming over the Web would literally be a dream come true. Judging by the volume of comments you'll find by Googling something like 'MediaMonkey as an internet streaming media server' (and the lack of any really decent solutions!), I think there would be a big interest in this as an addition to the current remote sync clients like MMA.
Jiri, way back in January 2013 you commented that this is also the direction you'd like to see MM evolve and that it would "eventually be implemented". Has any further thought or actual development occurred towards this goal? It just seems that you already have so much of the required architecture already in place with MM and MMA -- that the only big missing piece is a Web server component to deliver that functionality over the Web.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a huge MM fan, and just want to be able to enjoy the results of all my hard work wherever I am, outside the confines of my home LAN.
Since I started this thread, I hope you'll forgive my necroposting...
Lots has happened over the two years since my original post. Mobile broadband has become much faster and more reliable, and real-time streaming of media to Android and iPhone devices is now even more popular vs. physically duplicating (syncing) media files to the limited storage of the mobile device.
But AFAIK, we're still in the same place re. the inability to use MM as an internet streaming media server (I'm talking about 'real' streaming via standard HTTP/HTTPS, not using uPnP/DLNA). I've spent a lot of time trying both of the decent audio-oriented third-party solutions I've found in an effort to fill the gap (Subsonic and Ampache; there are others like Plex but they seem more targeted at video), and there are frustrating limitations and a lot of extra work with either one.
Like most of you, I use MM exclusively to organize and tag my music library. But I have yet to find anything even [i]close [/i]to the flexibility of the MM client interface to remotely access and stream my music collection. If MM offered true Web access, you'd have a solution to an increasingly common user need that no other product can address. Ideally, it would include multi-user login security, a responsive-design browser interface, plus standalone Android and iOS clients that expose most of the flexibility of MM's native interface, such as searching/sorting/displaying of secondary tags such as Composer, Conductor, Comments, multiple art images, etc. Extra credit if it could also incorporate the Subsonic API like Ampache does, which expands access to include direct use of any of the many Subsonic client apps.
Being able to use a single great tool like MM to maintain my library and to then have that library instantly accessible for streaming over the Web would literally be a dream come true. Judging by the volume of comments you'll find by Googling something like 'MediaMonkey as an internet streaming media server' (and the lack of any really decent solutions!), I think there would be a big interest in this as an addition to the current remote sync clients like MMA.
Jiri, way back in January 2013 you commented that this is also the direction you'd like to see MM evolve and that it would "eventually be implemented". Has any further thought or actual development occurred towards this goal? It just seems that you already have [i]so [/i]much of the required architecture already in place with MM and MMA -- that the only big missing piece is a Web server component to deliver that functionality over the Web.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a huge MM fan, and just want to be able to enjoy the results of all my hard work wherever I am, outside the confines of my home LAN.
