Jinzora

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

"One-click" Jinzora Installer

The default administrator in the "One-click" install of Jinzora2 on Amahi is

 login: admin
 password: admin

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

Jinzora looks for a very specific structure whe 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> media_dirs

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

Manual Install Instructions for Jinzora

(Note this will be automated with one-click install)

• Create the install directory/web-app
  • goto http://setup
  • select the web-apps tab
  • click create new button and use the name "jinzora"

• navigate to the web-apps directory
  • from the command prompt

         cd /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora

• Download the Jinzora tarball - As of this writing, at: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
  • Form the command line enter

        wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz

• remove the automatically created directory html. From the command line:

        rmdir html

• Untar the app: From the command line:

        tar -xzvf jz275.tar.gz

• This puts the .tar contents into the folder called jinzora2
• rename the folder "jinzora2" to the new name "html"

        mv jinzora2 html
       

• configure the security access .htaccess file (edit the file):

        nano /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html/.htaccess

• As the first character in all lines put a # then press ctrl-x, and y and "enter" to save

• After that, jinzora should be ready to continue install ...
• Navigate to the jinzora directory

         cd /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html

• 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:

         chmod 744 configure.sh

• Run the script to set permissions:

         sh ./configure.sh

• Create a database for jinzora to use

         hda-create-db-and-user jinzora2

(database name=jinzora2, username=jinzora2 and password=jinzora2)

At this point your basic app configuration should be up and running.

Launch Jinzora and follow the instructions.

• Use a browser and go to http://jinzora/
• Now you can setup jinzora

(at the end you will have to remove the install directory at some point):

    rm -rf /var/hda/web-apps/jinzora/html/install