Object storage support (Swift, S3)

[mlanner]

Hi,

I'm considering putting all my music and video on Swift, an object storage platform. (Swift is the same technology used by among others Rackspace, IBM/SoftLayer.) An alternate option, although not as useful for me personally due to high cost, would be Amazon's S3.

There are some readily available Swift Java libraries that might make it easier to implement in Subsonic, including: https://github.com/javaswift/joss.

I'm not much of a developer, but if anyone is interested in implementing Swift object storage for Subsonic, I can provide access to a Swift cluster for testing.

Thanks for the consideration.

[diffy]

What about Amazon Glacier, it's low cost. Interesting question.

[mlanner]

Amazon Glacier is too slow. It wouldn't work. Even S3 is questionable, due to the transfer costs of data. That said, though, if you have a private Swift installation, you don't have to pay data transfer charges and you get better data protection than you would on a NAS or local disk. That's really why I think it's a better solution than "traditional" storage options for my precious media.