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Asked: 2010-10-13 05:59:10 +0800 CST

How can I stream Music from my home machine to mobile devices?

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I currently have ubuntu 10.04 (planning on upgrading soon to 10.10) on a server at home with a large music and video collection.

I own a blackberry bold 9700 on AT&T and an HTC Desire (Android) on US Cellular, and I'd like to be able to listen to music (and perhaps even watch these videos, although this is less important) easily from both of these phones while on the go.

I've installed subsonic, which is quite nice and does a lot of what I'd like to do, except that using the android app requires paying a license fee that I'd rather avoid by finding a truly free alternative, and simply going through the web interface on either phone's browser is hardly easy or intuitive.

Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.. hearing from people who have already found working solutions for the bold 9700 would be ideal, as this is my primary phone.

10.04 android music smartphone stream

4 Answers

  1. I use Ampache for web-based music streaming. They have clients for Android, iPhone and WebOS; they just added a BlackBerry client. I also believe they have a plugin for Rhythmbox as well. The Ampache website is here: http://ampache.org/

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  2. You should check out http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp.

    Subsonic is a really great solution for streaming music of most if not all types across the internet. There is also an Android app that will connect to your Subsonic server.

    I don't see any Blackberry solution and don't use them anymore but you may be able to set something up.

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  3. You can make MPD to stream to Icecast instead of playing locally, I'm sure there must be an Android app that supports listening to a Shoutcast/Icecast stream, and there is an Android client for MPD. Maybe that can be part of a solution?

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  4. There are a couple of programs that do what you asked for in the PlayStore - Android OS:

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