Inviting users

[kapz]

I was thinking of sharing my music collection with my office mates, but didn't want to go though the process of creating login accounts for 30+ people. Plus there no guarantee that all 30 people will care to login even once.

I envision emailing everyone I want to share Subsonic with a single link. The user would be shown a screen to create a new username and password (assuming default permissions).

Now, this opens up a whole bunch of security issues if Subsonic is open to the world (which mine is). And adding the ability to email invites from Subsonic is beyond the scope of the project.

How about a text area where the admin can paste email addresses (one per line) that are allowed to create accounts. The "user account creation screen" would ask for an email along with the new L/P. The email must match an email in the invite list. When the account is created, the email is marked (or removed) from the pending invite list.

As a programmer, the above method has flaws. But I just wanted to put the idea out there to see if this would be a worth while feature.

[WildWalker]

Do you use a hosted server, or is your server at home?

If even 10 people take up your offer and start to use the Subsonic a lot, bandwidth will be a consideration, as will your monthly usage allowance (if your ISP measures uploads that is?)

Alan.

[Jb14813]

I was thinking of sharing my music collection with my office mates

If most of the people you want to share with are on a local network or if you have a good connection like a buisness line you should be fine

[kapz]

Yea, I'm not worried about bandwidth

[aktiveradio]

I would really like to see this, if something like each user could invite 3 other people or some number the admin picks.

I'd like my friends and coworkers to have access to the music.

I'd ask one of our developers to work on this if anyone else thought this would be good.

[Kirk]

Invites seem risky to me. It's not even legal to let your friends access your Subsonic, if you take a good look at the DMCA.

Invitations would allow people the administrator dormant even necessarily know have direct access to their stuff. Seems a little risky to me, but I suppose having the option available wouldn't be a bad idea. It's not as though the administrator has to allow invites even if it is implemented as an option.

Although I also think my Playlist Permissions feature request needs to be implemented first. Otherwise invited people might screw with other people's playlists.

Cheers,
Kirk