Hello, I am a website designer/coder for an internet radio station, we would like to share jingles/music online. This could be gigabytes of data, whats the best way to share all this, we want to keep track of it all and keep it there. File upload websites arent really reliable as they expire and get lost.

 

I have installed Extplorer on the website which is a PHP file manager, but can this handle uploading/downloading potentially gigabytes of data? http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/

 

Any other suggestions??

Hi Charlie:)

 

That sounds like interesting work..

 

I'm not too hot on the actual technical side of things, but could you not setup some kind of torrent/newsgroup system between the source and destination computers?.

 

I'm sure someone with more knowledge will be along shortly though to shed more light on it.

 

M

Hi Charlie:)

 

That sounds like interesting work..

 

I'm not too hot on the actual technical side of things, but could you not setup some kind of torrent/newsgroup system between the source and destination computers?.

 

I'm sure someone with more knowledge will be along shortly though to shed more light on it.

 

M

 

Torrents yes! (Never thought about using them in this way) I don't know much about this though, is there a way to make it secure?

https://www.dropbox.com/

 

or you can set up an FTP server on your machine for example

To be by-the-book, if you are sharing music you need be sure your licences cover you for this, otherwise you are illegally sharing music and can be prosecuted. Assuming you are playing music under the usual arrangement, the station should have "PRS for Music" (MCPS/PRS) and PPL to be legal, but whatever you have, the terms of your licence should dictate where the music you play can be sourced. I do a fair bit of work with radio stations for Cuedex Broadcast Solutions, but they are all single-site broadcasters so the music is held on-site by the station (usually sourced from record promo companies) and not shared with individual staff.

 

It's just something to be aware of so you don't find yourself in trouble for running an illegal download service!

Thats an interesting issue, we have permission to play all the music we play so would using torrents to share the tracks be okay? Hmm, if so I cannot think of another solution xD

Thats an interesting issue, we have permission to play all the music we play so would using torrents to share the tracks be okay? Hmm, if so I cannot think of another solution xD

Probably the best thing is to ask whoever you currently have permission from, and verify that they're happy with the music to be shared via some secure file share (an upload/download service protected by a username/password at a minimum). I can't see a distributed Internet station working any other way, so I would imagine they'd be happy since they already gave permission for its broadcast. But good to double-check anyway.

 

I would then agree with the simple FTP/SFTP server idea. You can turn any machine into a server (even your home PC) if your Internet connection has a decent enough upload bandwidth, store everything on that and allow other people to download from it. For example, see Setting up a SFTP Server on Windows article. If you have a static IP address, great; if not, Google "dynamic DNS". It'll take a tiny bit of configuring, but isn't forbidding

 

Obviously if you are using a shared machine like your home PC, it'll need to be turned on during all the hours other people will need to access the data. Also if you're on Windows, a firewall would be required to stop the rest of the Internet exploiting your machine (you probably have a software firewall already).

 

Alternatively, can't you locate it at the same site (even on the same machine) as your stream encoder/relay?

 

Good luck!

 

That's all good stuff, but the OP is 14 years old

The minimum age for prosecution in England is 10 years old, so it's still applicable. Ignorance is no excuse in law.