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. It also supports a few video formats. It is designed to be stable, self-contained, and secure. Because it is written in Perl, it can be run on most Unix or Unix-based platforms (such as BSD, Linux, and Mac OS X), and even on Microsoft Windows. GNUMP3d’s simple, themeable, Web-based interface is intuitive, and the package includes its own server, creating almost no dependencies.

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Source: linux.com

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