Streaming media server

[Seann Clark]

Wendell Nichols wrote:
> I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a 
> server on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and 
> playing the files in amarok.  However if any disruption to the 
> wireless network occurs, I lose the mount and, as you know, its hell 
> to recover an nfs mount if the network has failed.   What I'd like to 
> have is something like a shoutcast server that would serve up my 
> collection over a network connection or somesuch.  I installed icecast 
> but it doesn't seem appropriate for playing disk based music 
> collections.. meybe I'm wrong about that.
> Any suggestions?
> wcn
>
Use MPD as the player backend plugged into icecast. It works wonderfully 
(I am listening to it right now actually) and it also have a few good 
web based front ends for it, plus tons of linux based GUI's if that is 
your thing, and some good CLI Clients as well. MPD, I believe is in the 
Fedora repository (I haven't had to look for it in some time) but I do 
know that icecast has (or had) an oddity in it for Fedora 9 (I haven't 
tested 10 or 11, but it also only happened on a 64 bit platform) so if 
you have strangeness of the port for icecast not binding properly, 
remove the RPM and compile icecast from source.


~Seann


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~Seann
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