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If you want a free service to stream your music from your home computer to your work computer/android/iOS device, check out my service: http://www.audiogalaxy.com

Since we don't store the music in the cloud, we don't have any size limits (the current winner has about 530,000 files). Obviously this only works if you leave your home computer on, but we've found that isn't a problem for most folks.

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Didn't Audiogalaxy used to be a P2P service in the early 00s?

It did. We are some of the same folks, but a totally different service now.

It was magnificent back then. I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.

Wow. Nostalgia. I'll have to try this out again, after a decade.

Wow! I'd been thinking about researching iTunes -> iPhone streaming apps, but now I don't even have to — I know wholeheartedly that anything y'all put out is going to be awesome. It's weird to realize that 'brands' really do have worth.

Audiogalaxy 1.0 was the first to really execute on an amazing new UX since the days of IRC Fserves and Napster, and after your legal problems it wasn't till OiNK (and now what.cd) showed up years later that anything nearly as good was available.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Audiogalaxy which introduced me to my favourite music of all times, back in the day.

The second purchase I ever made online was an Audiogalaxy t-shirt. Thanks for the memories :)

I may still have my AudioGalaxy t-shirt from back in the day. Edit: High-five to jazzychad, didn't see your response.

The one where you searched from your browser and then opened some small hash file into the client which did the sharing, right? Not unlike the later BitTorrent.

Yeah, everything was browser based, except for the small app that ran on the desktop. We handled all the queues and the download scheduling on the server though -- no need for the client to open anything.

That was brilliant. I left the client up at home and could queue stuff up while at school. When I got home I had a bunch of new music to listen to. Great idea!

Thanks! That was my first lesson in how inspiring constraints can be -- we didn't have the resources to make a good client UI, so we put it on the website instead.

I'm currently using subsonic on my home server to stream my music, subsonic is guaranteed to be free forever, is open source, runs anywhere java does, transcodes formats, does video, allows downloads/uploads, has multiple full-featured mobile apps for almost every mobile platform, pretty much everything you could want. Setup is easy as pie, and it will even give you a subdomain in subsonic.org if you donate to the developer.

As far as I can see, your service is subsonic + the hassle of registering, yet another company with your personal details, less features and the possibility that it may become a freemium service in the future.

So, what, exactly, does your service offer?

IMHO, our setup is easier for normal people and our UI is simpler. And, it is totally free -- no "suggested donation" to get your license key.

Just downloaded it. Is there or can there be an option to keep the traffic inside my LAN, on the home side of my router? Seems a waste of my ISP bandwidth to stream from one room in my house to another.

Your site appears to be down for me. Unexpected spike in traffic? :)

Everything looks fine on my end. Shoot me an email (see my profile) and we'll figure it out. YC doesn't hit quite as hard as LifeHacker did last year. :)

How does your service compare to Orb? With Orb, I can stream my DRM'd-to-hell Zune Pass content to my iPhone.

Any plans to also stream video or photos? That would be flat out awesome.

No -- we want to focus on making the best music experience possible right now.

No linux?

Not yet -- I am bummed we haven't been able to make it happen yet but it is definitely on the list.

My music sits on a ReadyNAS Duo (fantastic value, low power, always on), which runs Debian. It would be very nice if the helper application worked there too.

In fact it works perfectly fine with wine until linux version is out

Yeah... no linux is a killer for me. Can I get a notification or something when there is a support for linux?

Yeah, send me an email (see profile) and I'll try to let you know.

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