Linux.com: GNUMP3d: A Small, Portable, MP3/OGG Streaming Server | Linux Today

Linux.com: GNUMP3d: A Small, Portable, MP3/OGG Streaming Server

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 10, 2007

“Suppose you want to let a friend thousands of miles away listen
to a song from your computer. Perhaps you just want to open up the
music library on your computer to a select few while you’re on
another client on your local area network. Enabling file sharing
might be overkill. Instead, you can use a streaming server such as
GNUMP3d. Streaming servers are useful for more than Internet radio;
they can let people choose individual songs from your music library
and play them–no need to configure NFS, SSH, or Samba.

“GNUMP3d is a small, portable streaming server for Ogg Vorbis
and MP3 files…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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