Comments on: Help me and my roommate stream music to each other

Question: Help me and my roommate stream music to each other

markcholden — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:57:22 -0800

How can I stream music from a Linux PC to a Mac computer?

I have a computer running Linux with no speakers hooked up. My roommate's computer running Mac OSX has speakers. We're both inside the same network. Is there any way we can stream music from my computer to his and play it on his computer? I know in principle this should be possible, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Thanks!

By: azlondon

azlondon — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:05:11 -0800

Set up a daapd server on the linux machine - details here or here.

This will appear as in iTunes as a regular share, giving you access to all the music on the Linux box.

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:07:31 -0800

Slimserver.

Run it on your linux PC, and stream it to the Mac by pointing your mac's media player to http://ip.address.of.linuxpc:9000/stream.mp3. If you want to get even fancier on the mac there's a java app called "softsqueeze" that directly emulates the squeezebox hardware that Slimserver supports natively.

From the Mac you can control what gets streamed over slimserver by pointing a web browser to http://ip.address.of.linuxpc:9000 . There a number of "skins" to the web UI as well. I'd recommend the heavily AJAXed "Touch" http://ip.address.of.linuxpc:9000/Touch/. But then again of course I'd recommend Touch...I wrote it :)

By: mbrubeck

mbrubeck — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:20:35 -0800

Using a recent version of Rhythmbox, go to the "Sharing" preferences and check the "Share my music" box. This will show up as an iTunes share. (The linux.com article linked by azlondon above mentions other GUI players with DAAP sharing built in.)

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:37:26 -0800

Icecast

By: mzurer

mzurer — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:42:58 -0800

I have a feeling actual streaming is overkill. Either use one of these iTunes fakeouts or simply share the files over the network. I've played mp3's at my office that were being shared from my home computer, accessed via a samba share and dynamic DNS.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:03:26 -0800

2nding slimserver and/or mt-daapd. using both at home.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:44:48 -0800

3rding Slimserver. I use it in exactly that setup at home (Linux server to mac) and it works like a charm.

By: dmd

dmd — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:47:51 -0800

3rding mt-daapd to play nicely with itunes sharing.

By: dgeiser13

dgeiser13 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:54:22 -0800

Isn't that what VLC is for?

"It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network."

They have versions for every OS under the sun.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:48:42 -0800

Rather than streaming, you could just set up a samba share for the music on the pc, mount that on the mac, and tell itunes to add the tracks.

By: autojack

autojack — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:26:36 -0800

Ampache

By: SubFuze

SubFuze — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:30:58 -0800

Just set up a SAMBA share on your linux box and add the files to his iTunes library from the shared drive.