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[[Category:Apps]]
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
= 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
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[http://en.jinzora.com/ Jinzora] is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.
** 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
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= "One-click" Jinzora Installer =
** 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
 
* 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.
 
  
* 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."
* 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
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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:
          hda-create-db-and-user jinzora2
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* Level 1: Genre
(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.
  
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
  
Launch Jinzora and follow the instructions.
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To change the location where jinzora searches for audio files:
* 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):
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# Admin tools> system tools> settings manager> main settings> System> media_dirs
    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.
[[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.