somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 10/18/01 6:32 PM, the entity
known as Ed Kummel transmitted the following from tech_ed_at_yahoo.com:
>
> As an MP3 server, you don't really need a dedicated
> machine for that. As I said in a previous email, I
> have 3 servers that do more than just serve MP3s.
> Granted, one is a dual P3, 650 compaq sever, but the
> others are just generic "peecees", P2 or better.
> WinAmp (a popular media player in the PC world) has
> plugins. A programmer (www.analogx.com) wrote a plugin
> that allows WinAmp to become a streaming media server.
> You point WinAmp to a folder full of MP3s, and it will
> continuously go through the music until you tell it to
> stop. This is streamed like a radio station, so you
> can't really tell it to skip to a certain song or
> something. I'm currently looking another WinAmp plugin
> that grabs news reports and using a text-to-MP3
> converter, creates an audio report and puts that
> report into the stream between songs at certain times
> of the day. I don't have the app name, I'm at home and
> can't access the DMZ at work from here.
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
>
Oh. That's not really a server (from what I understand of your
description), since it's not allowing OTHER machines to connect and play the
music. If all you're doing is simply generating a random playlist from a
folder of MP3's, iTunes does that and then some.
- Eric.
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