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Hello community!

I would love to stream music from my N900 to my HTPC that runs Ubuntu. I think that the best way of doing this is through WLAN. Therefore I'd like to start a web radio server on my N900 and stream out the sound in my private network. Then I can have a shoutcut script that I run from my N900 to start a client on the HTPC over ssh.This is the way I play music from my laptop to the HTPC.

The only thing I cannot sort out now is how to stream audio from the N900. I've successfully streamed the internal microphone over WLAN to the HTPC with the help of gstreamer, but I cannot get the system sound or the sound from the media player to do this. For that reason I wonder if there are any programs that can run an internet radio FROM the N900, i.e. the N900 is acting the server

/Allwise

Does the HTPC have a bluetooth built in? That might be an option.

Interesting idea indeed. But doesn't it sound a bit like the wrong direction? I mean, it sounds like its more useful to stream music from your htpc to your n900, like with "Knots2"?

But I guess, the benefit with that feature would be that you sort of have portable control of your audio in your house.

Wouldn't some UPnP server deamon be the right thing to solve this?
I haven't seen any in the repos, sorry to say.

Yes, the HTPC has bluetooth and that could be an option... But I'd prefer it over wifi since its easier, better coverage and faster. As you point out Larswad, it feels kinda the wrong way of doing it, and I've considered using UPnP, but it's better to run evertything from the phone. So first I'd like to try using the web radio method So anyone got such server program? surely there are som command line programs for this?

Maybe a tip here, I haven't tried it or anything, but maybe the "python2.5-brisa-media-server" might be something to look at?

Look in the package application.