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Icecast, the project, is a collection of programs and libraries for streaming audio over the Internet. This includes:

• icecast, a program that streams audio data to listeners
• libshout, a library for communicating with Icecast servers
• IceS, a program that sends audio data to Icecast servers

Galleon is a free open source media server for TiVo® which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.

Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP.

Streaming your media with Jinzora gives you quick and easy access to your online music and video collection from any device with a web browser.

Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.

Use Jinzora in Jukebox Mode to control a hardware device like your stereo set or Squeezebox and third-party software, including MPD, VLC and Shoutcast.

Jinzora is completely free and open source. It’s your media: Free it!

MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

MediaTomb implements the UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification that can be found on http://www.upnp.org/. The current implementation focuses on parts that are required by the specification, however we look into extending the functionality to cover the optional parts of the spec as well.

MediaTomb should work with any UPnP compliant MediaRenderer

The Firefly Media Server is an open-source project to build the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices. Current stable releases have been reported to run on Linux, all the BSDs, Solaris, AIX, and a variety of embedded devices such as the Linksys NSLU2, the Maxtor MSS, and the Buffalo Linkstation, to name but a few.

There are a number of features that differentiate Firefly Media Server from those other servers, and here is a partial list:

• Support for running on unix/POSIX platforms
• Support for Windows (beta versions)
• Support for Mac OSX (beta versions)
• Support for on-the-fly transcoding of OGG, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and WMA (beta versions)
• Web-based configuration
• Support for user-created smart playlists (beta versions)
• Integrates with iTunes library including reading playlists
• Supports serving streaming radio stations