The Problem
After about a year of enjoying how well my Ubuntu Linux home server downloads, organizes, and serves video files to my TV, I started to think harder about serving up music to devices around the house, and to my phone and/or PC while I’m at work. In the past, I’ve made my music library [...]
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Sick Beard is a (terribly, terribly named) application that downloads TV episodes from newsgroups—as opposed to BitTorrent—moves and renames them, and even fetches artwork and episode information (.NFO files) for use with XBMC. If, for any reason, you want to avoid BitTorrent and go with newsgroups instead, go aheard and install SABnzb+ for downloading purposes, [...]
This is a simple script I wrote to perform one-way sync to mirror my server’s media folder on my WD TV LIVE‘s external hard drive. I have to run such a script because the wifi-N signal in my TV cabinet is not sufficient to stream HD video, and the WD TV LIVE doesn’t appear to [...]
Note: This article is an update to the Transmission daemon install instructions which reflects what I did when I rebuilt my media server. I now show the location of the configuration file in the “normal” place, /etc/transmission-daemon/, which did not work for me originally, but worked for me after a fresh install. I also improved [...]
I want my Ubuntu media server to be able to push content to my WD TV Live, which I use to view content on my TV. My WD TV Live is on my wireless network, but I found that the network is not fast or reliable enough to stream 1080p content, or even 720p content [...]
For simplicity, I tend to stream from my media server to my TVs and computers using Samba shares. Samba shares implement the standard CIFS file-sharing protocol, are accessible from every major operating system, and work just fine with most media front-ends (for example: XBMC, Boxee, Windows Media Center, and my WD TV LIVE set-top box).
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Because I fried my server’s hard drive, I had to reinstall Ubuntu Lucid Server. Of course I didn’t have a Lucid Server disc, and, because physical media is dead to me, I didn’t have any blank CDs to burn. I don’t have any spare thumb drives, either. Therefore, I couldn’t install Lucid server. Instead, I [...]
I bought a Kindle 2 last month and joined the e-book revolution. I love e-books for various, practical reasons:
1. Books pile up around the house. I don’t have room to keep all of them. Selling, training, giving, or donating them is a pain. Throwing out books makes me sad.
2. Books deteriorate. I typically purchase used books, and [...]
