Sockso!! Sockso is a music streaming server program. It will take into account any folders you have on your computer, index the music from them, then create an online-accessible database which you can stream from. Your entire music collection: Working anywhere the internet and flash will. Lets get started:
One of the cooler parts about running a linux box is the ability to add things to what’s called your _.bashrc _file. This file can do anything from setting environment variables, to running a startup command when you log in, to setting program aliases. We we be doing the latter with Sockso. The command to run Sockso securely is long, arduous, and complicated, by adding a single line to the .bashrc file, we’ll turn this command into a single word. [NOTE: You will have to restart your bash session for the changes to take effect. This means either logging out of ssh and logging back in, or closing the terminal and opening a new one.]
To add a line to your .bashrc file, use the following command: echo “**cd /var/sockso-1.2.1 && java -jar /var/sockso-1.2.1/sockso.jar “$@” –ssl –nogui” >> ~/.bashrc
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Ok, let me explain this one.. The echo command just throws text on the screen, but it can also be used with a redirect to throw text in a file as well. Right now, you are throwing that big long command in quotes into the file ~/.bashrc. “~” or “Tilde” is a very short way to say “My Home Directory” and the .bashrc is the text file located in your home directory. Now, the part in the middle of these two, “>>”, this is output redirection. Instead of echo throwing text into the terminal, it will instead append that text into the file of your choice (in this case, your .bashrc file). Doubles (>>) will add the output to the end of the file, while a single redirect (>) will completely replace the file. You should probably be careful with this one. You can redirect output for just about any program in a bash shell, it comes in hand for many many things. For further reading on Bash Redirection head over here, a wonderful noobie-friendly post.
And that’s it for Sockso. In the future, we’ll be covering remote BitTorrent administration, URL-rewriting, and Wiki’s!
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