Re: Streaming Audio
Well, the Slim Devices server is a great one and it does stream MP3's (or indeed just about any format can be converted to MP3 on the fly.) It's freeware and I use it all the time to stream music.
You can find it at
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
It's made for their Squeezebox hardware player, but you can stream music off it to any Shoutcast capable bit of software too.
I use the Foobar2000 player to stream the music on; the controls are on a web page that the server runs. Foobar2000 is a very light-weight, high quality player, I've left it streaming for days on end with no problems. In fact I frequently just leave it running in streaming mode and stop the music using the Slimserver stop button on the web page.
But basically, you download the server for your chosen operating system on the page above and install it, on a machine that has access to your MP3 collection (or indeed has it stored.) Then you start the server, do some basic setup and point it at your MP3's and have it index them.
After that, you just start Foobar2000 or Winamp or whatever you want to use to stream the music and connect to
http://your.server.ip.address:9000/stream.mp3 and then you can just go to
http://your.server.ip.address:9000 to get to the web interface where you can select songs, play them back, browse your music collection etc etc. Very cool stuff.
Takes a bit of setting up, but shouldn't be insurmountable by any means.
I'm not sure how the Linksys device works, but if it works by redirecting the output from a program to the device using software on the PC then it should work fine for this.
