[aklug] Re: Sharing media files with Windows based computers

Tim,

I find a NAS to be the most straightforward solution. Centralize the
media storage and stream to all devices from a single location. I run
FreeNAS at home for this purpose and it identifies itself as a DAAP
server, a DLNA server, as well as hosting the same files as samba
shares. This does, of course, necessitate having a seperate device to
function as the server itself.

You could, instead, simply run a Firefly server on Ubuntu. This would
serve media as a DAAP server that iTunes devices (and software like
Rhythmbox or Amarok) could easily identify.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Tim Gibney <timgibney76@gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife bought a bunch of audio cds that I would like to share within the
> house via our wifi.
> Windows Vista and Windows 7 has media player list sharing that pops up
> automatically so I can listen to music from my wife's computer and vice
> versa. Itunes has bonjour that can share music and playlists as well that
> also discovers other computers on the network. Is there a way I can do this
> with Ubuntu Linux? Besides setting up SAMBA, is there extra software or
> media players that I can use from gnome to select lists of songs to stream?
> Also is there a way I can encode the cds on my Ubuntu laptop and have the
> songs visible and playable on the other Windows based computers?
>
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Received on Sun Feb 7 16:07:32 2010