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[[Category:Apps]]
  
http://en.jinzora.com/
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[http://en.jinzora.com/ Jinzora] is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
  
Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
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= "One-click" Jinzora Installer =
  
Streaming your media with Jinzora gives you quick and easy access to your online music and video collection from any device with a web browser.
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The One-click installer is configured to have the music library stored in the  share called "music."
  
Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.
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Jinzora looks for a '''very specific structure when it looks for media'''. It expects to find a folder structure like this inside the music folder:
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* Level 1: Genre
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* Level 2: Artist
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* Level 3: Album
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* Level 4: sound tracks
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If it does then Jinzora does a great job organizing the collection.
  
Use Jinzora in Jukebox Mode to control a hardware device like your stereo set or Squeezebox and third-party software, including MPD, VLC and Shoutcast.
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To scan your library into Jinzora:
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# login as the user "admin"
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# click the "Admin Tools" icon - in the little window at the top left of the screen
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# in the pop-up window click "Media Management"
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# click "Rescan media"
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# select the options you prefer (All sub-items for me) and click the "Scan Now" button
  
Jinzora is completely free and open source. It's your media: Free it!
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To change the location where jinzora searches for audio files:
  
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# Admin tools> system tools> settings manager> main settings> System> media_dirs
  
= Install Instructions for Jinzora =
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Point the “media_dirs” to the location where your audio files resides and then re-run the “Rescan media” function.
 
 
* Download the Jinzora tarball - As of this writing, at: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
 
* You can use
 
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
 
* Untar the app into a location of your choice say in your home directory (with tar -xzvf jz275.tar.gz)
 
* This creates a folder called jinzora2
 
* In the case of jinzora, it needs the following step:
 
rm jinzora2/.htaccess
 
* Create an Amahi web app in the Web Apps tab, under setup
 
* For the root path of the app, point it to the root path of the web app you just untarred (/home/USERNAME/jinzora2/)
 
* Create the app - give it a name of your choice, say jinzora
 
* The app should be available as http://jinzora
 
* Note that that url may take a bit to propagate. You can also try  http://jinzora.home.com (assuming home.com is your home domain), which may propagate faster.
 
* At this point your basic app configuration should be up and running. The next step is to create a mysql database and a user for it. See this page (except use, say, jinzora for the username and jinzora for the password, or whatever you like): http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=71&p=229#p229
 
* After that, jinzora should be ready to continue install ...
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Apps]]
 

Latest revision as of 01:53, 10 April 2010


Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.

"One-click" Jinzora Installer

The One-click installer is configured to have the music library stored in the share called "music."

Jinzora looks for a very specific structure when it looks for media. It expects to find a folder structure like this inside the music folder:

  • Level 1: Genre
  • Level 2: Artist
  • Level 3: Album
  • Level 4: sound tracks

If it does then Jinzora does a great job organizing the collection.

To scan your library into Jinzora:

  1. login as the user "admin"
  2. click the "Admin Tools" icon - in the little window at the top left of the screen
  3. in the pop-up window click "Media Management"
  4. click "Rescan media"
  5. select the options you prefer (All sub-items for me) and click the "Scan Now" button

To change the location where jinzora searches for audio files:

  1. Admin tools> system tools> settings manager> main settings> System> media_dirs

Point the “media_dirs” to the location where your audio files resides and then re-run the “Rescan media” function.