Re: [LAU] Audio Streaming Server for Linux

From: Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jun 14 2013 - 09:03:29 EEST

2013/6/14 Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@email-addr-hidden>

> Hi folks,
>
> I've got all of my CD collection ripped into FLAC on my computer.
> I'd like to be able to play my music from a remote computer,
> primarily at work, and play my music on my Android phone. All
> of these devices have a modern version of Firefox installed, and
> a couple of them also have either the free or partly free Chrome
> browser installed. The server would likely need to have some way
> to convert from FLAC to a lossy format, e.g. OGG, lessen speed
> requirements on the network. A quick web search found:
>
> CherryMusic - http://www.fomori.org/cherrymusic/
> streeme - http://code.google.com/p/streeme/
> Zeya - http://web.psung.name/zeya/ and
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/serve-your-music-zeya
>
> All of the above make use of HTML5.
>
> In evaluating what to install and use I'll be comparing to
> Amarok, which I like a lot for its features, but it still has
> some bugs that cause it to crash and require removal of all it's
> config files before restarting. Luckily, that's much more rare
> than it used to be. I'll also be comparing to the GoneMAD Music
> Player Android app http://gonemadmusicplayer.blogspot.com/ which
> I like quite a lot for supporting FLAC, playing in gap-less mode
> and being really solid, except that sometimes the menu containing
> "exit" won't persist long enough to actually press "exit".
>
> My second consideration is ease of installation.
>
> Do any of you have a preference for one of the above streaming
> software packages, or even something else? If so, why do you
> make your recommendation(s)?
>
> Thanks much people....
>

If your net.admin doesn't worry about incoming connection from your remote
pc, try using a radio streaming app such icecast.
It's quite easy to setup and streams oggs

/r

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