Jinzora

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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
        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.

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

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