Matt Morgan wrote: > > Just curious: for home use, what is the advantage of streaming vs. > just setting up a file share, shared to the "receiving" system? > > I have an old laptop plugged into my stereo and I just play files over > NFS. But I've always wondered if I should try Icecast instead. > It is a bit more secure - no access to the files over the network. You can also have more then one device connected to the same stream. But the machine doing the streaming decides what songs you get to hear. I used to have a system with a FM radio card in it that I would stream one station over the local LAN to a machine on my workbench in the basement - I could not pick up the station down there. (It does tie up a bit of processor power encoding an audio source - not a problem when streaming .mp3 files.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
