While thinking of the next article for the Open Sound Series, I was listening to some music via Ampache. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ampache, it is simply a piece of software that allows you to upload, download, and stream music (and now videos) from a collection of media residing on a server.

This week something cool happened. Ok, something cool happens every week in Amarok land, but this week was something special. We teamed up with Karl Vollmer, lead developer of the very cool Ampache music server to create an Ampache service for Amarok2.

If you want to share your music with your family , freinds or neighbours .. then GNUMP3d can do this job for you with one click. GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s/, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. In this tutorial we will try to setup a GNUMP3d server for mp3/media streaming.

Ampache is a LAMP application that gives you a Web interface to your music collection, allowing you to search, rate, and play your music over the network. It even offers transcoding support to allow clients to play back lossless-encoded FLAC files from the server and stream them to clients as MP3 audio files.

One of the problems we were running into in our home was the distribution of media files, specifically music... I want my music in places other than the room my desktop is in, other than the apartment my computer is in, and I don't have an mp3 player large enough for all of my files.

In this tutorial we're going to show you how to set up two types of media server: an on-demand server for all media types, and a streaming server for audio files.

SHOUTcast is server software for streaming media developed by Nullsoft. It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, see how to use shoutcast server to create your own online radio

"Lighttpd, affectionately known as Lighty is an extremely efficient and lightweight web server. I run Apache 2.2 on all my servers, but have been using Lighttpd for a couple years now to stream video files for a very popular web site I run. Lighttpd has a flv streaming module which can handle more advanced streaming than the usual progressive http streaming.

Zeya is a streaming music server that brings your music to any computer with a web browser. It reads your music library, lets you browse your files, and streams them on demand.

The client runs entirely in the browser using the HTML 5 draft standard technologies— no Flash needed! No Silverlight, no applets, no plugins, no external players.