Dec 6 2008 4:06PM GMT
Posted by: John Little
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Yes Amazon does give away free MP3 downoads, no charge and no strings attached. I have downloaded well over 100 songs from their website.
Some of the songs are singles and some are complete albums. There is all kinds of music here, some by well known artists and some either by not so well known artists or artists using a different name. The thing is that you can find some real jewels in their free lineup. You may have to do some trial and error listening but I can assure you that they are there.
A couple of my most favorite albums are This-Is-How-I-Roc-2008-Label-Sampler, Vice Gives You The Gift Of Good Music, and Fitzsimon & Brogan/Songs of Love and Revenge. You can listen to them on my site here or on Amazon’s site.
To get started go to Amazon’s website and in the left hand column slide your cursor to Digital Download>MP3 downloads. Scroll about a third of the way down and you will see a section called Special Deals: Free Songs and MP3 Albums as Low as $4.99. Read the text below the Album pictures and you will see a reference link to free gratis jams.
Click on that link and scroll to the bottom of the page to start looking at the gratis jams. Some will be singles and others are albums. If you want to see all 600+ in columnar format on the right hand side of the page find the link that says Top Free Songs See over 500 more free songs and click on this link. Once I am here I like to sort them either by Album Name or Artist Name. I like to do the album name as many of the albums contain various artists. Sorting them by Artist Name helps me find tunes that I may be missing from some of my favorite artists.
Once you find what you are looking for click on the Get MP3 in the left hand column. A page will open prompting you to install the Amazon downloader. This is available for Ubuntu 7.10, Debian 4, Fedora 8, OpenSuse 10.3, Windows and Mac OSx.
Happy listening!
-j
Nov 26 2008 5:10PM GMT
Posted by: John Little
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KPlaylist is what I call an MP3 server although it can stream just about any format of music or video.
I have used KPlaylist for several years now. It is an application that I thoroughly enjoy using for listening to my music anywhere that I have an internet or network connection.
KPlaylist is a PHP based script. It requires Apache (or some web server) and MySQL to function properly.
Set up is a breeze with the exeption of running SELinux on your web server. See my previous post about working around these difficulties.
SELinux aside download and extract KPlaylist wherever your document root is for the web server that you plan to use. I have a virtual host setup for KPlaylist so that is where I extract the files. The virtual host DNS is provided by no-ipin case you are interested.
After you have extracted the file open the index.php file. You will need to answer a few questions here.
[root@web multimedia]# vi index.php
$db = array(
‘host’ => ‘mysql0.home.local’, # MySql server
‘name’ => ‘kplaylist’, # Database name
‘user’ => ‘kplaylist’, # MySql user
‘pass’ => ‘kplaylist’, # MySql password
‘prepend’ => ‘KPL_’ # To prepend before the table names
);
Once you have the questions answered simply browse to the directory on your machine where you extracted the files. You will probably need to make a host entry in your /etc/hosts file with your inside address. I would also use a server alias in your http document root or virtual host container that you will use for access your server when at home.
At this point all of the values should already be filled in for you so you simply need to click continue. Once the database is created you will need to tell KPlaylist where your music is located. You do this by clicking on settings=>File Handling and filling in the path where is asks for “Base Directory”. The settings menu is found on the left hand side of the screen.
Once you set this path you should see the titles of your music show up in the right hand screen. Be sure and go through all of the admin and user settings so that you can define the look and feel of KPlaylist. You can also set it up so that it will only stream music or give your users the ability to download from your site.
Have fun keeping and sharing your music wherever you go! Send a note to all of your friends and family about your site. Not only will they enjoy it they will upload or send you their music to place on the site as well.
-j
