On 10 May 2006, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a bunch of music files in our household, and for various reasons > including disk space and only having one set of good speakers it would > be good to play them from our one-box-to-rule-them-all (gateway, DNS, > fileserver, mailserver) rather than from laptops. What's the jukebox > software of choice these days? Is Julie dead? > > Things that would be nice: > - general maturity > - a not-insane level of dependencies on the server > - mature clients: GTK preferred, others (including web based) > acceptable
We have a Squeezebox (http://slimdevices.com/) and it works very well in this kind of situation. It is rather biased towards listening through the device attached to your stereo, although there are software clients. The server and hardware client are open source. -- Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
