music streaming

[matigev]

Hey Jocko fvdw and all others ;)
I would like to stream my music over the internet (and possibly video too) to f.e. my smartphone.
Any ideas on how to do that? Now I have samba port-forwarded and limited the access ip range to my mobile internet provider (which has dynamic ip).
First of all I don't think it's very safe to do that (although I use a non-standard port number) and second of all I have to download each song on my phone to play.
I could do the same for the DLNA server but that's even more unsafe because it doesn't ask for user credentials.
Does anyone some work around for me?
I got some ideas but I wouldn't know what software I have to ask fvdw to compile for me ;)
(ffmpeg is working great by the way, much quicker than the optware package, many thanks)
My ideas:
1) VPN/Hamachi kinda thing in combination with DLNA
2) Shoutcast which streams a playlist 24/7 (unprotected/music-only/no choice in music/always cpu-load)
3) Some existing solution which shares a media library with user credentials, something like a Spotify server

The third option is what I'm really looking for but I'm willing to compromise.
It does not have to be pentagon-secure (but the more secure the better) and it would be great if it has multi-user support.
Free/open-source software is preferred of course (hey I'm Dutch) but paid software is also ok. I own all the music on cd, so I don't like to pay monthly for it like Spotify.
Thanks for your thoughts in advance and the best wishes for 2012

[Jocko]

Hi matigev

Forward port 445 is not very safe. :o

But a solution is possible and will be available in the next version.

Indeed the application "web-application" has a page with a wmp that already allows to play streaming mp3 and wmv files.

Access to the site requires an identification and if you want access more secure this can be done from the port 443 (https) instead of 80 (http) but maybe there will be flow problems (for testing the maximum speed is 300kB with https).

Another problem is I do not know if windows media player is supported by the smartphone and the site has not been tested.

[matigev]

thanks for your reply!
I know it's not safe, but I don't store anything important on my NAS, it's just for media.
My smartphone (rooted android) can play anything with the appropriate app, so that's no worry.
But I dont think https is the right protocol I would be looking for, I would have to have my browser open all the time I'm listening to music. But you might gave me some idea.
A shoutcast with secured web ui for controlling the server and the playlist... Does that exist for linux-arm?