"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.
You can listen to streamed songs from XMMS, VLC, RealPlayer, Amarok, WinAmp, Zinf, iTunes, or pretty much any other program that plays streamed MP3s or Ogg files and can support M3U playlists. GNUMP3d also provides the option to download music to any computer for users who would rather not stream it. I was, however, unable to download or stream several video files, and I could not find much information regarding video from GNUMP3d's site.
GNUMP3d is available in several popular Linux distribution repositories. It is easy to configure, set up, deploy, secure, and interact with. Because it's written in Perl, it is one of the most portable streaming servers around. With source code taking up less than two megabytes, the server might even run on embedded systems. It's a great way to share your music easily."
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