On 1/20/2010 4:40 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Ian Young wrote: > > >> I'm a Gnome user but have gotten pulled into it because I used and loved >> Amarok 1.4, and am being railroaded into upgrading to Amarok 2 (by >> Gentoo, of all distributions). There's some Reddit griping at >> <http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/84zux/who_else_feels_amarok2_is_a_huge_dissapointment/>. >> While it's from months ago, most of the complaints still feel completely >> relevant. >> > > I started a new thread. I've used Amarok just a little, but I'm thinking > of spending some time on learning it better. Before I do that, I'd like > to hear what other people are thinking of it and what other solutions > there are for managing large numbers of audio files. > > I'm especially interested in a client/server kind of system where the > media files and Db can be stored on one machine but other machines can > access Amarok on the remote machine and stream the audio. > > Mike > > Not a standalone application but I have been using Jinzora (web based app) which optionally stores index data in a *sql database. Also, this way your client installs are probably already done (http(s) streaming anyone?). Definitely not enterprise ready by any means but works great for my 120+ gigs of random MP3s. Seems to match your ideal description pretty well Mike.