[GLLUG] streaming music

[Peter Christenson]

Look into a DLNA UPnP server and renderer app.  I have a mixed MS/Linux network and I'm able to serve off of, and stream to eveything. Included standalone renderers. 

You have to check your security settings but it has made my life a lot simpler. Plus I have converted all my kids movies to divx/xvid, so now my 4year old never touches the disks! 

Try MediaTomb as a starting point for a server.

best
regards
Peter.



-----Original Message-----
From: "David Singer" <david at ramaboo.com>
To: "GLLUG LUG" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Sent: 12/22/08 17:22
Subject: [GLLUG] streaming music

I have all of my music (about 150GB) on a P3/512MB Ubuntu Server 8.04 box in
the other room. I typically work on my Laptop Core 2 Duo/4GB Ubuntu 8.04
(either 100Mbit or Wireless). I was wondering if anyone knew a good solution
for playing my music off my P3 Server on my Laptop. I have tried samba
mounting my music folder with the following script:

#!/bin/sh
smbmount //192.168.43.41/music/ /home/david/Music/ -o
username=david,password=mypassword (192.168.43.41 is my P3 server)

This works to access my music (a mix of mp3/flac) but it skips when I play
it with VLC/Songbird/every other media player iv tired. I can of course copy
some of it to my files to my local disk and play it fine from there but this
a huge pain and i would really like to be able to use Songbird to create
play lists / organise my files.

I was hopping someone might have found a good solution for remotly playing
music (preferably with Songbird). I googled a bit with no success. Optionaly
i would like something that would work with Movies as well but i could live
without this. Some sort of ACL would be nice as well since there are other
poeple on my network i would like to give read (but not write) access to.

Thanks
-David