“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…”