[Leaplist] spreading music throughout the house via Linux

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 26 May 2008 22:13:38 Mark W. Alexander wrote:
>
> On the server side, I use mt-daapd (apt-get-able) aka Firefly Media server
> (http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/) running on an NSLU2. Amarok sees and
> plays from the server just fine as well. Since it's light enough to run on
> a teeny ARM, I doubt you'd notice it running on any box that is always on.
> I've started ripping tracks in FLAC format and mt-daap transcodes them to
> mp3 on-demand so I get high-quality music archives that still play easily
> on most any client.

Apparently there's mediatomb[1] for UPnP.

[1] http://mediatomb.cc/

I've been using gnump3d[2] myself, which just does the usual streaming of MP3 
or Ogg files, since my collection is remotely on the Internets.  (And 
re-encoding.)

[2] http://www.gnump3d.org/