Move Over Slimserver here comes gnump3d
Some ages ago I was looking into streaming my music collection to wherever I
happen to be. In my quest to do so I stumbled on
Slimserver which is pretty darn cool in and of itself. But
it just seemed kind of clunky so I stopped using it. A couple of days ago I
asked around on the LVLUG mailing list for an alternative and was pointed to
gnump3d. I
have to say, this is pretty darn sweet. You don't have to "introduce" each
player to the sever like you do with Slimserver, you just point your browser to
it, create your play list, and it just plays. It's got everything I've thought
of that I wanted. The ability to restrict access via passwords or IP
addresses. On the fly down down-sampling so you can stream it over slower
connections. It's darn fast, plays OGG and MP3, runs on Windows and Linux, and
it's OSS to boot!
Good stuff.