Have you noticed all the downtime lately? had serious database problems, Bloglines was moving to a new data center, and TypePad had problems with their storage system. I’ll still probably end up getting either a Media Center PC, or whatever Apple announces in a couple weeks, but in the meantime, this is a great solution. The Twonky server products are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and will allow you to stream music to about 34 different devices. I have to look into that further, but otherwise, it’s been working great, and my Xbox 360 has been playing music just about nonstop ever since. I tried opening all the ports that TwokyMusic claims to uses, and that let me connect to the server from my Xbox, but not browse music for some reason. The one issue I’ve had with the server is that I ended up having to shut off the firewall on my iMac (but not the firewall between me and the outside world). The TwonkyMedia server will stream photos, as well, but I’m only interested in music since all my photos are on Flickr (who I hope is working on some sort of media streaming solution of their own). It even runs a little web server on port 9000 that you can use to administer the music server from inside or outside your network. The server automatically starts when I log in, and indexes all the MP3 files in the /User directory. I’m running it on a G5 iMac in my kitchen, and it streams music to my Xbox 360 over a 802.11g wireless network perfectly. I’m using a server called TwonkyMusic from Twonky Vision. All you need is a media server that the Xbox thinks is a Media Center PC. I don’t have a Media Center PC (yet), but it turns out I don’t need one in order to stream music to my Xbox 360. I’ve had it for about a week now, and I think I’ve spent as much time playing with the dashboard and media capabilities as I have playing games. My Xbox 360 monitoring script worked, and I got a Platinum system from Circuit City.
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