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heikki

I have airtime running on small vps and I dont have the disk space to store all my media on that same server.

Is there any way to externally link media to airtime? or is my only option to set up another airtime install and use it to stream my media?

hoerich

Hi heikki
where you want the files to be placed?
did you read this? http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/airtime-24-for-broadcasters/using-the-airtime-import-script/
cheers

heikki

On a external server, since I don't have much diskspace on my vps.

Thomas Hackett

I'm also looking for this.

Music repository on a home file server connected to Airtime's front-end at some provider.

Instead of or additionally to a home file server, connections to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Soundcloud & Co would also be welcome.

Albert FR

You have a lot of solutions

the best for me is fuse over ssh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

Thomas Hackett

Albert FR said:
You have a lot of solutions

the best for me is fuse over ssh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

Would be interesting to hear if anyone has actually implemented this. I somehow doubt that Airtime's directory indexing can cope with fuse. Fuse caused me headaches years ago, perhaps it's got better?

Albert FR

I've do it a lot of time ;-)

and now it's very easy to implement. (directly in fstab)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

Thomas Hackett · Post edited by Thomas Hackett at 2013-10-22 17:40:23

Albert FR said:
I've do it a lot of time ;-)

and now it's very easy to implement. (directly in fstab)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

I see a new option here: Bitcasa Infinite Drive ... if mounted and useable by Airtime it would be the ultimate solution. Just not sure if there is a delay before the remote file is ready to play.

Albert FR

that's doesn't work with linux... forget it

Albert Santoni

Thomas Hackett said:
I'm also looking for this.

Music repository on a home file server connected to Airtime's front-end at some provider.

Instead of or additionally to a home file server, connections to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Soundcloud & Co would also be welcome.

Good suggestion. We might be reworking some of the internals of the database soon, and we'll leave the door open for scheduling content from more data sources like these. :D

Albert FR

Exactly, But Owncloud (Open Source solution too would be a good start point ;-)

But as I said before in this thread you can connect a distant server easily with sshfs or nfs or a vpn solution

Albert Santoni

Thanks Albert FR! :) I haven't played around with ownCloud but it's been on my TODO list. Looks like a fun project to set up on a Raspberry Pi.

If you set up a remote filesystem (S3 for example) with FUSE, just be aware that if S3 goes down, you could end up with dead air.

In the future, if Airtime is made aware of remote files, we'll make sure that it downloads the files you need when they get scheduled, to make sure they're available locally well ahead of the time that they're needed to be broadcast (for safety). These are the kinds of little design considerations that we're going to try to give a lot of love to. :)

Thanks!

Albert

Albert FR

you can use autofs and/or monit in this cases

Thomas Hackett

Albert FR said:
that's doesn't work with linux... forget it

That's not a problem... I shared Bitcasa from Windows to Linux which now shows 8 million terabytes of space. Metadata is available fast enough, just haven't tested actual play yet.

pepito

the prices of differents plans when become "airtime pro" are based in the store capacity so i dont think airtime team will implement this at the moment

Robert Callicotte

I have successfully set up Airtime on an Amazon EC2 instance with my library hosted within an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance mounts the buckets via s3fs. I set up a watched directory and monitored the media-monitor and pypo logs during the import process (which took quite a while as I have several terabytes of audio). The files play just fine using this setup. I can submit a more detailed write up if needed.

Daniel James

Hi Robert, details of your setup would be very welcome!

Thomas Hackett

Hi Robert, interesting indeed, what size is your EC2 instance? TBs of music at Amazon sounds really expensive - I'd probably have those sitting on my home server instead, and just have the service in the cloud if performance allows.

Robert Callicotte said:
I have successfully set up Airtime on an Amazon EC2 instance with my library hosted within an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance mounts the buckets via s3fs. I set up a watched directory and monitored the media-monitor and pypo logs during the import process (which took quite a while as I have several terabytes of audio). The files play just fine using this setup. I can submit a more detailed write up if needed.

Roger Wilco

When LiqSoap pulls musics from a remote server, does it effectively pre-fetch the entire track before it lands in the queue? What happens if you have, say, a 24hr long playlist? Or jam Track C in the queue a few seconds before Track A finishes and Track B was supposed to begin...?

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