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Jinzora Media Server...
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http://en.jinzora.com/
 
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Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
 
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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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Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.
 
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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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= Install Instructions for Jinzora =
 
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(Note this will be automated with one-click install)
 
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* Create the install directory/web-app
 
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** goto http://setup
 
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** select the web-apps tab
 
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** click create new button and use the name "jinzora"
 
  
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* navigate to the web-apps directory
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[http://en.jinzora.com/ Jinzora] is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
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** from the command prompt
 
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          cd /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora
 
  
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* Download the Jinzora tarball - As of this writing, at: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
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= "One-click" Jinzora Installer =
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** Form the command line enter
 
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        wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
 
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* remove the automatically created directory html. From the command line:
 
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        rmdir html
 
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* Untar the app: From the command line:
 
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        tar -xzvf jz275.tar.gz
 
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* This puts the .tar contents into the folder called jinzora2
 
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* rename the folder "jinzora2" to the new name "html"
 
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        mv jinzora2 html
 
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* configure the security access .htaccess file (edit the file):
 
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        nano /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html/.htaccess
 
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* As the first character in all lines put a # then press  ctrl-x, and y and "enter" to save
 
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* The app should be available as http://jinzora
 
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* 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.
 
  
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* After that, jinzora should be ready to continue install ...
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The One-click installer is configured to have the music library stored in the share called "music."
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* Navigate to the jinzora directory
 
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          cd /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html
 
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* Your web server needs write permissions to some of the Jinzora files. To write log files and cached pages for example. We've created a script called 'configure.sh' that sets the required permissions. First, the script needs to be made executable:
 
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          chmod 744 configure.sh
 
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* Run the script to set permissions:
 
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          sh ./configure.sh
 
  
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* Create a database for jinzora to use
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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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          hda-create-db-and-user jinzora2
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* Level 1: Genre
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(database name=jinzora2, username=jinzora2 and password=jinzora2)
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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.
  
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At this point your basic app configuration should be up and running.
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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
  
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Launch Jinzora and follow the instructions.
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To change the location where jinzora searches for audio files:
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* Use a browser and go to http://jinzora/
 
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* Now you can setup jinzora
 
  
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(at the end you will have to remove the install directory at some point):
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# Admin tools> system tools> settings manager> main settings> System> media_dirs
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    rm -rf /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html/install
 
  
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Point the “media_dirs” to the location where your audio files resides and then re-run the “Rescan media” function.
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[[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.

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