PulpTunes Offers Dead Simple iTunes Streaming
Windows/Mac/Linux: Streaming your iTunes collection doesn’t sound like an easy task, but PulpTunes makes putting your music library on the web a two-click affair.
Things have gotten rather streamlined in the ongoing battle to stream music via iTunes. During our testing of PulpTunes, total setup time, including downloading the actual software, was under one minute and completely automated. The only thing you need to do for PulpTunes besides running the installation file is opening the default port in your in your firewall to enable remote access.
Once you’ve opened the port, a visit to http://youripaddress:15000/ will load a screen like the one shown above, populated by your music collection. PulpTunes runs wide open by default, so we’d suggest going into the User Management menu and enabling a username and password. You can access your iTunes playlists on the left hand side, search through your music collection, or drill down through your collection by genre, artist, and album. The buffer adjustment feature is handy, allowing you to tweak the amount of playtime that will be buffered based on your network speed. Not a fan of iTunes? Make sure to check out Sockso, a similar streaming server that works with any music collection. PulpTunes is open source and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Awesome tip!
motang
You know, Lala.com has a little app that lets you upload your entire itunes library and then stream it from anywhere. What's nice is that you don't have to open ports and if you have common songs, you don't even had to upload the actual file; they just add the file from their library to your account.
I promise I don't work for them or anything, but it is a pretty nice service that I've enjoyed. I've even played songs of my laptop and Verizon card on road trips and been able to play any song I want.
I'd say check it out: lala.com
@overthinkingme: Seconding the dyndns argument, but also pointing out that most routers also have support for dyndns built-in, so you can create an account, give your router the credentials, and forget about it.
@DvBoard: I would suggest Simplify Music for that. Works good not like Great Great but it does the job. its only like 3 dollars or so. But your home computer or whatever computer is serving the content has to be on. So basically a home server.
Joey Mendoza
Great! A new way to listen to the same old music that I've heard 10,000 times.
dmccall
I have used Jukefly for a couple of years now, very simple.
alstki
@ekzachtly:
You can setup dyndns to resolve your dynamic IP. Just replace the IP with the hostname you make in dyndns.org
Alex K
@ekzachtly: I've been happily using SimplifyMedia to do this since the software launched, and highly recommend it.
It even manages to get through our firewall at work, which nothing else has so far.
[www.simplifymedia.com]
BingleyJoe
Would this work to stream it to my iPod?
DvBoard
Would there be an equivalent for use with Spotify? would be good to control it through my ps3 browser?
Owen Sion Morgan
all you have to do is go to [no-ip.com] register and get a free redirect and you install the program on the comp you are hosting server on and it automaticaly updates ip
killzpot
If you do have a dynamic IP address, there is a free service that allows you to assign a domain name like: myname.dyndns.org
It's really easy to set up and doesn't cost a dime. I have a dynamic IP and it has always worked well for me. Lifehacker did a write up on it years ago.
[lifehacker.com]
@No..
Soo that sort of leaves the majority of us with dynamic IPs in the dust. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's really cool- it'd just be a pain in practice to check what your IP address is every time you want to stream to another computer.
@dmccall: That sounds like your fault, I don't see how it has to do with the software. And what's the alternative, the radio? You can sub in the statement above in response...
Interesting, but I think I'll stick with Subsonic. Just seems to be more accessable, but still maintains a great feature set.
[lifehacker.com]
ugmojoe
I think SimplifyMedia acheived the same effect, but with even more/better features. Share with Friends, stream to iPhone, no dyndns issues. . . SimplifyMedia. Check it out.
GarthMussenden
What would you recommend I use to be able to stream an mp3 file on a website for people to play but without allowing the visitors to (easily) download the file?
SenorDunda
i'm absolutely loving Sockso right now, the web inference is tremendous and it zips my albums for remote download, but I'll try this out as well on my backup pc. It only needs a itunes database file right, now an actual itunes program running?
greenwald3132
@Jack:
My dynamic IP address hasn't changed in 5 months +.
If you never turn off your modem it doesn't ever have to change
jupiterssj4
Really awesome. Glad you finally found this! If you've got any problems the developer is really helpful and quick to respond. Have a look in the forums - there's loads in the pipeline.
On another note though, is there any equivalent for Mediamonkey? I know there used to be, but that's no longer developed..
This might sound silly, but has it ever been addressed why Lifehacker articles insist on saying "Dead Simple" almost every time instead of just "Simple" to describe things? I'm curious. Apologies if it's ever been brought up before now.
DevonCain
Would there be an equivalent for use with Spotify? would be good to be able to control spotify on my ps3s browser
JacquelineMessalla