I am trying to figure out how practical it would be to set up an older Mac (Beige PPC upgraded to a G3 running OS 9.x, or a pre-G3 machine running OS 8.6) on my home (hard-wired-ethernet) network as a music file server/player. [snip]
From your description, it sounds like you want to do real streaming audio. But I wonder if that's worth the effort?
A "cheaper" solution, what I do... Make a general file server, and share the disks containing the songs. On the computers where you want to play the songs, run a player and just access the songs directly.
I'm playing stuff using SoundApp right now. The playlist and mp3s are sitting on a PowerMac 7100/66 in another room.
- Dan.
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