Ah, modern living...

[jbsegal]

So, thanks to modern technology, I get to listen to music.

My mac at home has many mp3s on it. It has an Airport card in it. It's also running SlimServer. Having punched a hole in the home firewall for it, I'm able to stream music from home to my desktop. Yay.

But wait, it gets better.

Due to the vagueries of A) the home wireless, B) the cable-modem connection, C) the MP3 players on my desktop machine (running Linux (FC4)) - which seem to be bad at rebuffering after network congestion - I'm actually using VMWare Workstation to run {shudder} WinXP so I can run iTunes.

Yay, geekitude.

Comments

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

I was never able to get decent performance streaming from my home machine to AKAM.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

you need more peculiar technologies involved in this. is there a way to tunnel it in x.25?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I go a different route, I set up my music archive on my server, and then connect to that and add the files to the local machine iTunes library. It seems to work slightly better than streaming from home does, but I haven't tried slim server as of yet.

[protogeek.livejournal.com]

Ooh, streaming... better watch out, it's Tabor's pet peeve!