I have all of my music on a network drive hooked up to an Ubuntu server. I can access the music from my Ubuntu laptop. The problem is that I can't find a program that will use my samba connection to access the music directly. Any suggestions?
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If you are looking for something lightweight than Rhytmbox, then try audacious
sudo apt-get install audacious
It is also present in Ubuntu Software Center. HTH
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.
These settings allow both sound sources and sinks to be published over the network, ideally to another pulseaudio server.
In case you have your server setup without desktop manager you will need to install a sound system first (see this question). You can then edit /etc/pulse/default.pa uncommenting these lines in the Network access section:
load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
load-module module-zeroconf-publish
If you want to use RTP sender uncomment these lines the RTP sender module section:
load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink"
load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor
The pulseaudio server needs to be started as a daemon with pulseaudio -D in case it's not yet running. For optimizing sound qualitity settings in the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf may be adapted to personal needs.
An alternative method to stream audio in your network would be to setup an Icecast Server (see this question).
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I would suggest you use a streaming server application.
There is
ampache(amarok, andriod client, ..), which is a PHP + Mysql webstreaming application. http://ampache.org/wiki/clients:amarokand there is the
Firefly Mediaserverhttp://www.fireflymediaserver.org/Firefly has also the support to stream to iTunes and lots of other applications including Rhythmbox.
I would suggest the
Fireflybecause it is a little bit easier to setup.