Please help, I could use some advice/guidance about setting up a music streaming website internally.

Question

The basic idea is I'd like to have a website on the intranet for streaming music. I'm open to any idea. The basic functionality I need can be found at sites like mixtape.me and playlist.com. Ideally I'd love if any site like those were open source and I could just snip out the parts I need. Complexity isn't a problem, I'm just not sure where to start.

Money is not a problem, but keeping support completely internal is a priority. The department handles sensitive documents and is cut off from the internet, but has access to the company intranet. There's a chance that soon the employees will not be able to have mp3 players, which would be a huge hit to moral. If there's any advice you can give, like places I should be looking to get started or even companies that provide this product.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You might get a better answer on http://serverfault.com or http://superuser.com but I think a good place to start looking would be with Windows Media Services or Adobe Media Server.

After you choose what platform and technology you want to do, we can better help guide you on integrating it with a website.

Answer 2

One solution for music streaming would be to have a look at IceCast (opensource).

IceCast provides users with a web interface to download the stream.

Example PipeLine for IceCast(others setups are possible)

 Winamp -> Winamp OddCast plugin(provides the data to stream)  -> IceCast (handles 
 streaming to clients) -> Client

The web-interface provides a file which the user needs to open in their media player, to access the stream.