Ubuntu – How to stream Music from the 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.

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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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Yes, with pulseaudio this can easily be done. You will need to install and run paprefs that makes your sound devices available over the network.

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These settings allow both sound sources and sinks to be published over the network, ideally to another pulseaudio server.

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