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Um.. so sorta like Ampache's Democratic Play feature? http://ampache.org/wiki/democratic

A strong second on the Pro Audio end here. I know this is a well worn topic that we've all re-hashed several times (much like the often discussed Photoshop vs Gimp topic), but there just isn't anything available on Linux that is going to touch what's available in the Pro Audio world for serious musicians and composers. As far as trying to get Sonar Producer X1 to run under WINE, there's just no way anyone can deal with the performance hit, I don't care what kind of system you're running, or how fast your Audio Interface is. Once you've got some major virtual instruments loaded, and you're making your system really work, there's just no way any kind of virtual machine is going to be able to work for you. Not trying to start another flame war, but I have to say this is definitely one of the reasons that I keep one of my computers on Windows 7 64 Bit.

But, I will say that my other computer is my own hand built server running Debian, with a nice little installation of Ampache which I can recommend highly if anyone wants to stream their own MP3's to themselves at work or to share with their friends/family.

yo do not even need to roll your own. Just use Ampache, and host it yourself. There are Android and boxee clients. I no longer use satellite radio since I stream everything to my phone for long drives..

Ampache, I had my music hosted in the cloud by myself and streaming to my phone before all the big companies were doing it thanks to AMPACHE . My friends have access to it and they help with the rating of music. It keeps my playlist fresh.

I run Ampache on a little underpowered Ubuntu box, and regularly stream to my Palm Pre phone.
There appear to be several Ampache clients for Android.

you might work something out with ampache using localplay.

According to this site, you can you use Jinzora to stream MP3s to your Wii. Haven't tried it myself though, since I'm running AMPache on my server, which I haven't gotten to work with the Wii Browser so far.

I use SubSonic: a free, web-based media streamer, providing access to your entire music collection wherever you are. This way I don't need to fill up my laptop drive and I can access my collection from anywhere (provided I can SSH to my home firewall to port tunnel access to my SubSonic). It allows me to browse my collection, generate and stream my playlist, or download the songs I want. It also has features for album art and lirycs. There is also Ampache, but I have not used that.

Current I've got about 115 GB of MP3's (Live shows downloaded from archive.org and bt.etree.org, and ripped CD's). I use EasyTag to make sure everything is tagged correctly and the filename in a format of "Artist - Track#(Leading 0) - Trackname" then off they go to a file share with a FirstLetterofArtist/ArtistName/Album format. This makes it pretty easy to find something to burn, transfer to the iPod, or play on XBox Media Center. For playing on a computer however, I've installed Ampache. This makes it pretty easy manage/playback the whole thing in a easy to navigate format that will automatically pull cover art from Amazon and keep track of most popular played and recent additions automatically. It seems to work overall pretty well.

ampache seems to work pretty well.

In my mp3 collection, I have 18,000 songs in ~3,000 albums. It took Media Center more than 24 hours to add the first 1500 albums into it's database. Of course at that point I cancelled the operation. What kind of crappy Media Center takes that long just to build a song database? Ampache does it in less than 2 hours.

ampache can do this:
http://www.ampache.org/

kplaylist is a bit more lightweight (i use it):
http://kplaylist.net/

jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that:
http://www.jinzora.org/

ampache can do this:
http://www.ampache.org/

kplaylist is a bit more lightweight (i use it):
http://kplaylist.net/

jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that:
http://www.jinzora.org/

Ampache (www.ampache.org) is another web jukebox like Netjuke, Jinzora Edna and the many others that exist out there. Since I'm the lead dev of Ampache I'll shamelessly plug it :-) Supported Audio File Formats: * MP3 * OGG * RM * WMA * FLAC * MPC * MP4/M4A/AAC It also supports output to * Any Player that can read a http STREAM * Local Play through Moosic * Local Play through MPD * Multicasting using IceCast And it can generate the following Playlist types * Extended m3u * Simple m3u * PLS * ASX Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/ I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/

Ampache (www.ampache.org) is another web jukebox like Netjuke, Jinzora Edna and the many others that exist out there. Since I'm the lead dev of Ampache I'll shamelessly plug it :-) Supported Audio File Formats: * MP3 * OGG * RM * WMA * FLAC * MPC * MP4/M4A/AAC It also supports output to * Any Player that can read a http STREAM * Local Play through Moosic * Local Play through MPD * Multicasting using IceCast And it can generate the following Playlist types * Extended m3u * Simple m3u * PLS * ASX Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/ I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/

Ampache (www.ampache.org) is another web jukebox like Netjuke, Jinzora Edna and the many others that exist out there. Since I'm the lead dev of Ampache I'll shamelessly plug it :-) Supported Audio File Formats: * MP3 * OGG * RM * WMA * FLAC * MPC * MP4/M4A/AAC It also supports output to * Any Player that can read a http STREAM * Local Play through Moosic * Local Play through MPD * Multicasting using IceCast And it can generate the following Playlist types * Extended m3u * Simple m3u * PLS * ASX Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/ I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/

This is a limatation of the FLAC codec as far as I understand, I'm pretty sure there was an update to it that allows streaming... But don't quote me on that it's late and I'm tired.

Just to pimp my produce a little more it also supports output to

* Any Player that can read a https STREAM
* Local Play through Moosic
* Local Play through MPD
* Multicasting using IceCast

And it can generate the following Playlist types

* Extended m3u
* Simple m3u
* PLS
* ASX

Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk
Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/

I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/support/faq.php

-Karl Vollmer
Lead Developer, Ampache

This is a limatation of the FLAC codec as far as I understand, I'm pretty sure there was an update to it that allows streaming... But don't quote me on that it's late and I'm tired.

Just to pimp my produce a little more it also supports output to

* Any Player that can read a https STREAM
* Local Play through Moosic
* Local Play through MPD
* Multicasting using IceCast

And it can generate the following Playlist types

* Extended m3u
* Simple m3u
* PLS
* ASX

Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk
Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/

I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/support/faq.php

-Karl Vollmer
Lead Developer, Ampache

This is a limatation of the FLAC codec as far as I understand, I'm pretty sure there was an update to it that allows streaming... But don't quote me on that it's late and I'm tired.

Just to pimp my produce a little more it also supports output to

* Any Player that can read a https STREAM
* Local Play through Moosic
* Local Play through MPD
* Multicasting using IceCast

And it can generate the following Playlist types

* Extended m3u
* Simple m3u
* PLS
* ASX

Public SVN: https://svn.ampache.org/trunk
Themes: http://www.ampache.org/themes/

I could go on, but you should just try it for yourself, http://www.ampache.org/support/faq.php

-Karl Vollmer
Lead Developer, Ampache

http://www.ampache.org/ - It's a LAMP-based server, easy to use w/ some good features.

Currently the following file formats are supported.

* MP3 (Id3v1 & Id3v2)
* OGG
* WMA
* RM
* M4A/AAC/MP4 (Itunes files)
* FLAC
* MPC

I'm using ampache at home for this. I have ampache installed on a junker machine in each room - they connect via smb (over regular ol' 802.11b) to the debian box in the computer room that has all the music on it. I use my zaurus to hit the webserver on which ever machine runs the room I'm in, (zaurus is on 802.11b also) set up my playlist, and away it goes. Pretty nifty system actually, and it's all open source.

I use Ampache (a web-based PHP application) to stream my MP3s from the western USA to Europe this year, and it works very well. Sometimes a song stops in the middle, but I have diagnosed that it's a webserver problem, not Ampache, but haven't had time to fix that.

Anyway, see this: ampache.org

Oh yeah, and once you have all the files on your server and in Ampache, you can keep a local cache of the URLs to all the songs. I do this so I never have to use the web interface unless I want to.

You can serve up your iTunes database with apache and mod_mp3 or with ampache which has a spiffy web interface.

I guess that's not the point though...Apple->bad. Why they would care about a plug-in for a free player is beyond me.

Not to be a dick, but why pay $35 for Andromeda when you can download AMPache for free? :)

It works with apache so it works on everything too.