Sockso – Personal home streaming music server

Posted on April 15, 2009 at 5:18 am

Have you ever wanted to stream your own music across the Internet? Diduou know it is possible to setup your personal, home music server in just a few simple steps? With a free Java-based application called Sockso, you can achieve this feat easily.

If you have loads of music files stored on your computer, you may want to share these files with others. There are many ways to do it e.g. file sharing but have you ever thought to stream it?

Streaming your music files means that people can listen to your song collections using Internet technology (web browsers) without having to download / copy the song to their own PCs.

To make it even more useful, you can have a single PC running Sockso at home storing all the good music files while the other PCs connect to it whenever they want to get jiggy with it. Now, that is a super disk-space saver!

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Sockso’s Features

  • No installation needed, just unzip and go!
  • Being a Java based app means that Sockso can be installed on virtually any platform.
  • Share any of these file formats: mp3, ogg, flac and wma.
  • Simple web interface; for both you and your users.
  • Stream music using your IP address and a configurable port of your choice.
  • Allow or block users from downloading your tracks easily.

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  • Allow anonymous users or force user to register before they can stream your music files.

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  • User file upload support – increase your song choices!
  • Playlist creation support for users.

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  • Various music player available for use from the web console.
  • Save bandwith / speed up streaming with output streams re-encoding.
  • Last.fm scrobbling integration (optional).
  • Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support to secure connections between user’s computer and Sockso.

Using Sockso as a home music server is a simple 5 step process. To share your files with anyone out there, follow these instructions:

  • Download and unzip Sockso to a folder.
  • Connect your computer to a home network / the Internet (depending on where you want to serve the music files).
  • Click on the “Run Sockso” shortcut to launch the program.
  • Select the music files / folders that you want to share.
  • Share your computer IP address and Sockso port number (default:4444) with your friends e.g. http://<ip_address:4444> . They can use this address and listen to your collection using their web browser.

It’s that simple! No mind-boggling web server configurations needed! In my opinion, Sockso is a free, personal home music server that allows you to stream music easily from your computer to all your friends or just everyone else in the world. Try it today!

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4 Responses to “Sockso – Personal home streaming music server”

  1. jaw2 said on : April 15th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    Excellent! For some time now I have had the idea of sharing my music with friends, this is a good point to start. I’ll test this software :)
    Thanks a lot for the information.


  2. Patrick said on : June 21st, 2009 at 8:58 am

    Dear,

    I’ve downloaded Sockso and am running this program. After I scanned for media files and added them to a playlist and saved it, nothing happened. How can I play media files? I add the stream IP-address into WMP but WMP can not connect… there is no stream…

    My questions are:

    1 Why can’t make Windows Media Player connect to Sockso with the IP-address?
    2 How can I check if Sockso is streaming? I can’t find any Play button… How can I start streaming/playing the media files?

    I hope somebody can help me.

    Kind Regards,
    Patrick


  3. Fernando said on : December 9th, 2009 at 12:31 am

    I tried it and it’s great you can choose to stream music to your local network or to the world. It’s easy to set up and has a lot of options I did not expect from a free player.


  4. Amber said on : March 13th, 2010 at 2:50 am

    Is there an alternative to Sockso? I can’t seem to get it to work properly. I really want to setup my own personal music server, but it’s not working. What port does Sockso use?


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