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

--- On Sun, 2/7/10, 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?

i like mpd. Configure as generic streamer (for use with generic
stream clients) and/or GMPC(lin/win) with per-user playlists/control
(using multiple ports/server-instances). command-line control as well..

mdf

      
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Received on Sun Feb 7 22:26:54 2010