[GLLUG] streaming music

[Karl Schuttler]

 I would suggest against touching anything UPnP if you like having
 control over your network. UPnP is giving applications the ability to
 dynamically change your firewall rules. Bad idea.

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>>DLNA UPnP server
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>>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.
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>> 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!
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>> Try MediaTomb as a starting point for a server.
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>> best
>> regards
>> Peter.
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>> -----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
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>> 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:
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>> #!/bin/sh
>> smbmount //192.168.43.41/music/ /home/david/Music/ -o
>> username=david,password=mypassword (192.168.43.41 is my P3 server)
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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