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The Shifted Librarian points to an interesting bit of shareware (Spreading MP3 Goodness Throughout the House). The software, MP3Mystic, is simply an MP3 server with a web-based interface. Users can upload songs, download, or stream them. The neat thing is that you can easily control who has access to the server or not. Thus, for example, you can set up a server and have access to it on the road, or share the URL with a limited number of friends and family. This is nothing special, but the social ramifications of such simple systems are enormous. The widespread use of such tools will increasingly push consumer expectations away from being tied to proprietary systems and DRM systems that do not allow such wonderful flexibility.
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What's the big deal? (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 14 @ 19:56:46 EST | I keep my MP3 on a Linux box in my basement. You can browse all the files with a Web browser - just set up a simple web server to serve the files.
I also put the MP3s on partitions that are exported via NFS/Samba to the rest of my home network. So I can plug in my laptop into the stereo and listen to MP3 from the server.
Oh yeah. The server is an old Pentium 120Mhz machine, with 48M of memory and about 16Gig of disk (I scavenged the drives from some broken PCs).
...richie
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