July 25th, 2011, 03:11 PM
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SMB isn't really a streaming-capable thing, it's for random byte access to a file like a hard drive. ES does some kind of processing of it's own letting them play sort of streaming like that, a single song at a time.
Few things:
1. If you're rooted I'm told you can mount an smb share to local and then a music player should work just as if the mp3s are on the sdcard.
2. I use subsonic streaming server. It's great, has clients for android and ios, great web based client to use on a pc, has server for linux or windows and best of all for me, it transcodes just about ANY VIDEO you have, xvid avis, mkvs, ogms whatever to flash that you can watch on android 2.2+ devices or through a browser on pc.
You can listen outside of the house too since you aren't relying on an smb share.
The subsonic windows server doesn't work with remote media (like on a nas) but the linux one does. (I'm running the linux one perfectly in a 384mb ram fedora 15 virtual machine)
There are some people in the subsonic forum that get the server running on a nas device itself if it's powerful enough.
3. I wouldn't have gone to all the work setting up a virtual machine to host subsonic or setting up subsonic itself just for music. Video was the big thing for me. Any music I have is on grooveshark almost surely and I can play that with tinyshark. Or I could upload all my mp3s to google music and use that, either way I avoid having to run a server myself, but again the video. That's what does it for me.
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