[JoshK]

Does anyone here access their music server data, let say, at work?  I would really like to have access to my music at work that is on my vortex box.  I am wondering the most economical/simple way to do that.

One rub, I am in Canada and many of the music playing services are not available here such as Pandora or MOG.   Grooveshark does work here and it what we use. 

Cloud space seems pretty expensive for the amount of data I have (~1TB at the moment, but close to double once I rip all my new stuff). 

[MaxCast]

I'm with you, Josh.  Screw the cloud, I just want remote access to my computer, easily!
Would a backup service like backblaze or carbonite allow access to music files??

[JoshK]

Grooveshark works for mp3s.   It scans your collection and then adds them to your music on Grooveshark.    I tried this out on a small scale and it seems to work. 

I haven't gone to work to test it out remotely, but I assume it knows your collection and your account. 

[srb]

As an IT Admin I would weed you people out and issue a cease and desist order!  It wasn't my business to control any anyone's productivity (or non-productivity), but I was responsible for maintaining reasonable Internet access speed for all employees.
 
Just a dozen people each listening to a continuous 128kb/s music stream will use up the entire bandwidth of a standard T-1 Internet line!  Then they come to me and complain that Internet access is so &*#@! slow .....
 
Steve

[totoro]

Why not just rsync your data onto a 1tb external drive and bring it in to work? When you add new stuff, bring the drive home and rsync it again.

Then you can listen to it directly or throw squeezebox server on some old hardware inside your internal network (which is what we did where I work).

A bit of a low tech solution, but external drives are cheap and small nowadays, so it works pretty well.

 EDIT: if you have a linux box or mac, you have rsync, which is smart about recopying things. Not sure what you would use if you only have only windows, perhaps robocopy if it's still around.

[Chromisdesigns]

As an IT Admin I would weed you people out and issue a cease and desist order!  It wasn't my business to control any anyone's productivity (or non-productivity), but I was responsible for maintaining reasonable Internet access speed for all employees.
 
Just a dozen people each listening to a continuous 128kb/s music stream will use up the entire bandwidth of a standard T-1 Internet line!  Then they come to me and complain that Internet access is so &*#@! slow .....
 
Steve

Are there actually businesses still using T-1 connections in this era of widespread broadband access? 

I work from home and use a private microwave link that gives me guaranteed minimum 8 mb up and down, but more typically 20mb+ each way, for less than I used to pay for AT&T 3mb DSL. 

I retired from IT work 10 years ago, and even then we had long since abandoned T-1 lines for higher speed connections.  I can't imagine why anyone would use T-1 these days...

[JoshK]

That is not a bad idea, one I haven't thought about actually but we can't attach any drives to our PCs at work, they are locked down.

[Chromisdesigns]

Does anyone here access their music server data, let say, at work?  I would really like to have access to my music at work that is on my vortex box.  I am wondering the most economical/simple way to do that.

One rub, I am in Canada and many of the music playing services are not available here such as Pandora or MOG.   Grooveshark does work here and it what we use. 

Cloud space seems pretty expensive for the amount of data I have (~1TB at the moment, but close to double once I rip all my new stuff).

What kind of music server do you have?  If it can act as a NAS, then there are several inexpensive so-called "plug computer" solutions that can make your NAS accessible over the internet, and/or stream to your mobile device (which might make your network admin at work happier...)

[Crimson]

Jeez..... No brainer guys. Apple's iTunes Match. Your tunes, anywhere, anytime.


 

[totoro]

That is not a bad idea, one I haven't thought about actually but we can't attach any drives to our PCs at work, they are locked down.

Hmm--- what about bringing your squeezebox touch to work and plugging the drive into that? Or maybe a linux-based netbook? It looks like it's possible to connect a nexus 7 to a usb hard drive: I guess the question then would be whether you would be able to find an app that would play music off of that

[totoro]

What kind of music server do you have?  If it can act as a NAS, then there are several inexpensive so-called "plug computer" solutions that can make your NAS accessible over the internet, and/or stream to your mobile device (which might make your network admin at work happier...)

pogoplug is one such:

http://pogoplug.com/

I had one set up a year or two ago. It worked ok, but could be really slow. I'd bet that they're better now.

EDIT: They have an unlimited account for $5 a month. Not sure how unlimited that is in reality, or how long it would take you to upload 1tb, though.