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How to steam music from my media server to another pc on another internet connection,?

• hello, a few days ago i set up a TB media server on my network which Works fine, however I want to be able to use it at other places from different internet connections. the only 2 ways i know is with HTTP and FTP however both ways require you to first download the file, I want to be able to steam it like youtube or one of them only movie websites were you can watch/listen while steaming at the same time, how can I do this ?

• Answer:

  Shame you didn't mention what form of media server you setup. Is it an all-in-one NAS box? Or a full computer system acting as a file server? FreeNAS (an operating system that turns a computer into a file server) has DLNA, Digital Lifestyle Network Automation, service built in that shares music. It also has DAAP, the old Apple / iTunes service that ties in with Bonjour to advertise music sharing. Perhaps your media server has some of these features? Alternatively you could use ShoutCast / IceCast as a service. This is what Internet radio stations use. WinAmp has an inbuilt ability to playback these services and can in itself be the streaming service (using IceCast plugins). I tried this many years ago and it wasn't a simple setup, though that may have improved recently. All options will require port forwarding on your router (plenty of solutions to that on Y! Answers) and some way to resolve your dynamic IP address on the internet. The latter can be solved using a Dynamic-DNS service provider. I use No-IP.com, though plenty find DynDNS.org good also. Be warned that audio streaming will be a possibility on a broadband connection but video streaming will need a lot of bandwidth (or high compression of the video itself). Most broadband lines are asymmetrical, meaning they download faster than they upload. Good luck!