Following up on my previous gripe about efficient ways to share music, Abdul keyed me in to the idea of using Gmail as a shared repository. With the 1 gig of space that is offered, it seemed like a pretty good way to go.
I noticed today that I had 50 free accounts to give out (Um…does anyone still need one?), so what the heck. It’ll be as simple as giving out the username and password to people who are trustworthy and won’t randomly give it out/delete existing songs/change the password, and just uploading music at will.
There’s two issues to tackle: First - a way to alert people when new music has been put up. Two - a way to sort and archive the music and choose which ones are deleted. In the meantime, I’ll fiddle with gmail to see if any of this can be easily achieved.
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I would like a gmail invite, por favor.
I was going to mention GMail the last time you harassed me about this, but I don’t think it’ll work. I actually set up a gmail account named “bazshare” or somethign a while ago so that when people needed something from me, I could just give them the login to get the file.
Also, I had the use of the GMail drive extension (PC only) in mind. But that requires a higher (thought not high) level of computer skills (and bow-hunting skills, and nunchuck skills).
Thank You.
Well if everyone has the login/pass, they can just set up the email account in an external POP client, and whenever anyone uploads new music they can send it to the email address and it’ll alert everyone who has the client set up right, and they can filter all the emails to go into one folder so it doesn’t bother them if they don’t want to deal with it, but they can search around if they need to without having to visit gmail.
By the by, I dunno if you’ve been to my FTP server, but that’s another excellent way for sharing music. Doesn’t alert people to new music on there, but since it’s all organized by iTunes it’s easy for people to find what they’re looking for, and they can download from me any time my computer is on, and I’ve chrooted and chmodded things so people can’t mess with my computer except for where I want them to. It wasn’t that tough to set up, you might have some more trouble since youre not on OSX, but it works pretty damn well now that I’ve got it on there (including a no-ip.com redirection scheme so people don’t even need to remember my IP).
Granted it’s not the easiest thing to manage, but there’s a couple of advantages by doing this via Gmail - The fact that anybody with a web browser will have access, plus, unless I’m mistaken, once it’s in the inbox, it can be easily forwarded to anybody else’s e-mail account.
And a gig of space. With 50 possible more gigs for archiving purposes since gmail has been very generous with the invites.
I’ve already begun playing around with it, we’ll see if it sticks.