Listen to your music anywhere with Subsonic
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 12:01.
If your music library is tied to your CD collection or MP3 player, you can still hit the road without losing access to your tunes. Subsonic is a free, Web-based media streamer that lets you -- and your friends -- access your music collection over the Internet.
Subsonic can handle large music collections, running into the thousands of CDs. It also works with video; in fact, it can let you remotely access any format that can be streamed over a standard HTTP connection. If needed, Subsonic will convert your collection to a streaming format on the fly, taking into account the available bandwidth. You can use any browser and media player combination to listen to your music; I went for Firefox and RealPlayer, but other combinations are equally valid.
Subsonic released the current version 3.4 in April, and version 3.5 is in beta now, which goes to show that the program, though stable, is under active development. Subsonic is distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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Or you could just carry a MP3 player and not be tied to a Internet connection.
MP3 or iPod to GPS phone free for internet connection on USB ?
There will be a proposal to Apple soon to use GPS satellite for iPod communications as well as all the Mp3 devices.
We need positioning locators for children and communications free for parents; then some internet capabilities to rival iphone?
Chinese telephone companies are working on cellphone microwave towers to GPS communications paths? They already have toy GPS phones for parents and children thru GPS packets on carrier frequencies(very simple electronics even adding edgeQam stations, channels and threads in the packet body).
A whole product line can be developed using GPS satellites to cover areas of the world without electricity. Satellite phones now use Boeing Iridium. But with the European satellites coming on stream, GPS satellite phones on musical devices would be the quickest mass adaptation.
Steve Jobs may get a quick call?