[TriLUG] streaming audio

[Joseph E. ODoherty]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:23:30PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On 10/29/06, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've also run daapd[2] to feed music via DAAP[3]. Add in a multicast
> DNS[4] server and you can serve music automatically to Amarok[5][6]
> and other music programs[7][8][9]. DAAP can work over the net, but
> by default, multicast DNS only announces itself on a local network, so that
> would solve the problem of keeping it local.  I would highly recommend
> going that route if you can.

I also want to put in some good words for DAAP. I've been using the Firefly
Media Server[10] (formerly known as mt-daapd) to play music in iTunes and
Amarok. It has a built-in mDNS server (or can use Avahi[11]) and supports
on-the-fly transcoding so you can store your media as flac or ogg or
whatever you prefer and still stream them safely to iTunes. It's truly a
beautiful thing.

/joeyo

[10] http://fireflymediaserver.org/
[11] http://avahi.org/

> 
> [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_mp3/
> [2] http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/daapd/
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Access_Protocol
> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS
> [5] http://amarok.kde.org/
> [6] http://www.flickr.com/photos/geek/255658364/
> [7] http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/
> [8] http://banshee-project.org/
> [9] http://www.apple.com/itunes/
> 
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