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Your music when you want and where you want
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myCDRack was created to make just that happen, your
digital music when you want to listen to it and where you want to listen to it.
myCDRack eliminates all of the technical issues necessary for catloging your
MP3 files, searching your collection, creating playlists and most importantly
hosting music streaming from your home computer with a high-speed internet
connection.
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The secret is the software.
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myCDRack server is a small but powerful application
that you install on your home computer. This single application is all you'll
need to organize and share your digital music library over the internet. And of
course it is all safe and password protected so only you can access your music
files. Download the application now and see for
yourself how quickly and easily you can configure everything and be immediately
streaming your digital music across the internet.
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Setting it all up is a snap.
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Just follow along with these simple configuration
instructions and you will be up and running in no time:
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 IP Address:
myCDrack will take care of tracking this. Every computer on the internet has a
unique address know as its IP address. It is the only way for other computers
to find your computer and request streams of your digital music. This value can
change from time to time as your high-speed internet provider updates its
network but don't worry, myCDRack will make sure the world knows your new
address.
Port: The default here is set to the standard HTTP port used universally
by all the well known web sites like Google.com and MySpace.com. It would
probably be best to stick with this default unless you understand port
numbering. If you use a home network router you should also know that you might
have to configure your router to allow access for this port and direct it to
the computer running the myCDRack application.
User Name/Password: This is the username and password you created when
you set up your account. If you have not set up your account yet, you may do so
by clicking here.
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Folder With MP3 Files: This is the root folder
where all of your MP3 files are located. In order for this to work, all of your
MP3 files must be at or below this folder. You can't have folders all over your
harddrive. At this time, the system only works with MP3 files also. Sorry, but
we don't have a hack for iPod and other proprietary formats.
Rescan: From time to time you will probably want to update your MP3
files adding new ones, deleting some or even updating the tag information that
we use to track artist, album name, etc. After making changes, you should click
on the Rescan Now button in order to force a rescan of your MP3 files from your
root folder and below. The rescan will also report this updated information
back to our central server.
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Start Server: This button will activate the mp3
streaming server. Only when the server is started will you be able to listen to
your mp3 files from any computer in the world. The status window will display
status messages while the server is operating.
Stop Server: This button will shut down the mp3 streaming server and
stop the ability for you to listen to your mp3 files.
A status message will always appear at the bottom of the server letting you
know the current state of the server.
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Advanced Feature Audio re-encoding is an
advanced feature that while somewhat technical makes the myCDrack server
extremely powerful. Because most of the mp3 files you have ripped from your CD
collection are probably encoded at a high, cd-quality, bit rate, even the most
common high speed internet providers might not support an upstream rate to
sustain streaming these files. In addition, when you're listening from your
laptop at the coffee shop or your office PC, you don't need the cd-quality
sound nor do you want to use up the high bandwidth for listening at that rate.
The solution is to re-encode your files on the fly at a lower, sustainable, bit
rate from your home computer. In order to achieve this though, your computer
must have a piece of free software installed that can do this. The program is
called LAME, (jokingly, Lame Ain't a MP3 Encoder). To learn more about this
program and to download and install a copy for yourself, click
here.
Once you have the program installed, merely tell the myCDrack server which
folder you installed the program to and select the re-encoded bit rate you
would like to stream your files at. A good bit rate would be 48Kbit which will
still provide you with full stereo and good quality sound.
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