Stream music to many computers on LAN

As simply as possible:

• 1. Install VLC onto the "server" of the music. vlc-nox is a handy package in the Linux world.

  2. Run VLC on "server" as something like vlc *.mp3 --sout rtp:224.0.0.1 --ttl 4

  3. 224.0.0.1 means feeding the data out to the multicast All Hosts group.

  4. TTL 4 means only cross at most 4 routers which should be more than adequate for any small LAN

  5. On any workstation machine now connect to rtp://224.0.0.1

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address for the different types of multicast addresses