Hey all!

I recently discovered ACD was available in Canada and I've been thinking of what else I can use it for other than a backup solution (goodbye, CrashPlan). I had a thought of possibly using ACD as a file storage solution for a music player running off of a VPS.

Here is an example of what I mean: I have a lot of MP3's ripped from my CD collection. It's eating at my storage at home and would love to create a way to not only move it away from home but also be able to stream it anywhere. I had the idea to get a cheap VPS and throwing Ampache on it. The only problem with this is cheap VPS's usually don't have very much storage. This is where ACD would come into play. My idea is to have ACD store all the files and have the VPS read in realtime and play music back to me.

My problem that I am facing, and it's probably that I just can't figure it out, is that ENCFS requires the non-encrypted files to be stored elsewhere. In my idea there would be no "mp3" (encrypted or not) files stored on the VPS and it would solely rely on ACD for the storage needs. The problem I seem to be facing, and maybe this is just because I don't understand encfs fully, is that in order for there to be an encrypted there also has to be a decrypted version in another folder. My hope was to simply mount ACD /somewhere/ and encrypt a directory (and subdirectories) and to be able to read encrypted files and write decrypted files (for the system to encrypt them) in realtime without much action from me (other than moving the files to the ACD_CLI mount).

Am I making this out to be harder then I needs to be? Perhaps I need to be using a tool other than encfs to achieve what I'd like here.

Let me know!