Vibe Streamer is way cool

This is quite a handy little app. The idea is, you have a file server somewhere in the house and all your music is neatly organized there. This app installs on the server and you can access a neat music player through a web browser from anywhere.

Tonight I was looking for a way to easily share music from my Windows server to my Mac through iTunes. Something I've learned since I got my MacBook is that you better have either all Mac PC's or all Windows PC's. What a pain to get them to work together. Well since Apple can't just make it easy I am no longer even using Apple software for music. I'm using Vibe Streamer.

It's a very small app. The installer is only 662KB and installed only takes up 2MB. Running it takes 0% CPU on my dual core Xeon and 8MB of memory. It runs its own web server so it doesn't use IIS. I'm not sure I like that. I would rather have more control over the service. Once installed all that needs to be done is configure users and groups and point it to your music. By default it uses port 8180 so it won't interfere with other Web sites you may host and you can set up port forwarding and firewalls for that. The interface needs work but there is skin support and I'm sure it'll get better. Funny thing too. It doesn't work on Safari. Big surprise right? I hope they keep developing it because I like the idea a lot. They'll probably get shut down by the stupid RIAA.  EFF forever!

Vibe Streamer