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Jinzora Media Server...
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http://en.jinzora.com/
 
 
 
Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
 
  
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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[http://en.jinzora.com/ Jinzora] is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
  
Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.
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= "One-click" Jinzora Installer =
  
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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The One-click installer is configured to have the music library stored in the  share called "music."
  
Jinzora is completely free and open source. It's your media: Free it!
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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.
  
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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
  
= Install Instructions for Jinzora =
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To change the location where jinzora searches for audio files:
  
* Download the Jinzora tarball - As of this writing, at: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jinzora/jz275.tar.gz
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# Admin tools> system tools> settings manager> main settings> System> media_dirs
* 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.
 
  
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Point the “media_dirs” to the location where your audio files resides and then re-run the “Rescan media” function.

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.