If you like the idea of listening to your music collection on whichever computer you choose but aren’t satisfied with the plethora of music lockers out there (including the very nicely designed Anywhere.fm which was acquired by Imeem recently), check out the streaming music service JukeFly as an alternative.
JukeFly looks a lot like Anywhere.fm but there’s a crucial difference: instead of uploading all of your songs to JukeFly, as you would with Anywhere.fm, you download a 1.5mb client (currently only available for Windows) that will turn your computer into a streaming music server. If you leave your computer on and connected to the internet, you can go over to your friends house or a local internet cafe and play all your songs through the JukeFly website for free.
Because JukeFly has opted to leave the heavy lifting to users’ own broadband connections, the company doesn’t have to deal with the costs associated with serving up audio files. But it also doesn’t assist in distributing your files to others, resulting in a limit to how many people you can share your music with at a given time (currently only one friend). To remedy this restriction, the company is working on the ability of users to upload their JukeFly playlists up to a server so they can at least share songs in them with multiple others.
JukeFly supports MP3s, iTunes unencrypted formats (AAC and Apple Lossless/m4a), and Ogg Vorbis. The service should appeal to users with very large music collections since they won’t have to deal with uploading all of their songs. The two entrepreneurs behind JukeFly previously founded Tukaroo, a desktop search product that competed with Google and Yahoo’s desktop search offerings and was acquired by Ask in June 2004 (support for it has since been dropped). Development on JukeFly started in early 2007; the founders post regular updates to their blog.
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Cool!
LOVE the idea. Hate uploading all those MP3s, but like the idea of having a backup.
So you can now use both models
Cool! I’ve been using Orb (www.orb.com) for quite some time and like it. The UI could use a little TLC tho. It also works very well on mobile devices! I’ll have to check this out!
These days it seems like everyone all of a sudden must have all their music available to them at all times. How long will that last? Is that really *so* important? I actually like listening to *other* people’s good music.
It’s great to see Adobe Flex technology making waves with a new application for the public.
Orb has been doing this and more for much longer. Not just music, but video (it reencodes on the fly), PVR streaming and recording, and even streams from your webcam on demand. With an unlimited data plan on a mobile device, you literally have all your media anywhere.
Indians can share their music collection by just sharing the link like say http://moviemazic.com/showuser.php?id=61. Thanks to Movie MAZIC. http://moviemazic.com
Reminds me of http://www.streamjack.com from 5 years ago.
So what is different from what http://www.slimdevices.com are offering with their sqeezeserver? Their solution covers a PC server for streaming, PC clients and in addition sqeezebox clients - all of these can play their own music or sync with each other. As far as I know, the software is free to use on PC’s.
I use to do this with shoutcast, but it’s a lot of upkeep.. even downloading for me has gotten tedious, so I just stream my Youtube music playlists on my PCs and iPhone or while driving use a Windows Mobile IE radio site ( http://www.techavid.com/internetradiomobile.php ) .
Installed … crashed Firefox while trying to browse for music. Reinstalled, restarted, crashed Firefox again at the same point.
I like the idea, but it would be nice if it worked. I’ll try again in a few months.
IanDanforth — I would appreciate it greatly if you would email me (jsidlosky at gmail.com). I would like to spend a few minutes to see why your browser crashes. That’s a new one for us.
Of course only if you see this comment :-).
Windows only?
Grrr. What’s the ETA for a Mac client?
– Anders Nancke-Krogh — The slimserver software was terrible. Could never get it to work right…
I like Anywhere.FM because it streams from Amazon S3 (which is always pretty fast) as opposed to my home cable connection (which is always never fast on ul’s).
Buffering is the devil.
I’ve been really happy with simplifymedia. It works on PC and Mac (and *nix too, I think). The best part is the integration with players like iTunes.
Love it. Installed very easily - no set up complexity (my mom could do it).
Can’t see an easy way to change my password.
The app is Flash - which I can’t install on my corporate laptop. Would be great if Jukefly provided a lower-tech-yet-still-functional app that is not flash based.