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#1 2011-08-27 07:36:00
- gogi-goji
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Local music playback from remote machine
I have a bunch of music stored on a remote computer in a mix of of AAC and FLAC (with the FLAC mirrored as Ogg and MP3 as well). I want to be able to play this music locally through two different computers, a Linux laptop and an iMac, somehow streaming it over the network. I came up with two ideas as to how to accomplish this, but would appreciate some insight as to which would work better:
1) SSHFS - the file system could easily be mounted on the local machine for playback with a media player of choice on the local machine
2) Stream - the remote machine generates a SHOUTcast/Icecast stream that can be controlled over an SSH connection and played locally by VLC or whatever
Thoughts as to the advantagages and disadvantages of each, or any preferable solutions? Network performance is probably an important consideration here, as I would love it if I could play music through my laptop as I am outside my home network, and I'm pretty sure my ISP gives me fairly limited upload speed. Thanks for your time and consideration.
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