NewsForge: Streaming Music with SlimServer

“Converting your CD collection into MP3 or another digital file
format gives you the ability to enjoy the music on your computer
and stream it all over the house and the Internet. To do the
latter, however, you have to install and configure a streaming
server on your computer. That might sound like a daunting task, but
there is a streaming server application that makes the whole
process pretty painless. SlimServer from Slim Devices is a
cross-platform streaming server that runs on Windows, Linux, and
Mac OS X and supports a wide range of formats, including AAC, AIFF,
FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, and WMA. Although it was developed to
stream music files to Slim Devices’ Squeezebox2 hardware player, it
works perfectly with any software MP3 player capable of working
with network streams…”

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