Network Audio
- Audio and Apache a paper from Sander van Zoest describing the use of Apache as a server for streaming media
- BGM a background music player for PBX systems
- Cyber Radio 1 a system for live Internet audio broadcast
- EsounD the Enlightened Sound Daemon does network audio too
- Flash plug-in for Linux Netscape, plays Flash files on Shockwave-enabled Web sites
- Fluid Streaming Server streaming MP3 server for network broadcast
- Freecast peer-to-peer streaming system for Ogg/Vorbis audio and video
- GStreamer
- GStreamer streaming media framework that "...allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple MP3 playback to complex audio and video processing"
- GStreamer Pipeline Editor "allows easy, graphical construction, inspection, and operation of media processing pipelines", requires GStreamer
- Helix DNA Producer "a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and downloadable audio/video files", supports RealAudio/RealVideo and OGG Vorbis
- Ice Sound Manager sound server software for the IceWM window manager
- Icecast
- Icecast is an MP3 audio broadcasting system
- IceDJ "...is a set of scripts for running an Icecast radio station with tight integration with an accompanying website"
- ices a JACK-aware module for Icecast
- Internet Radio Toolkit a suite of command-line tools for uni/multi/broadcasting MP3 streams over the Internet (HTTP and RTP protocols supported)
- Kickarts simple KDE panel applet to control the aRts sound server
- LDAS the Low Delay Audio Streamer, software from Asbjørn Saebø
- LiveMix audio streams mixing program, requires PostgreSQL
- MAS the Multimedia Audio Server, a network audio server for X, from Shiman Associates
- MozPlugger autoplay embedded audio and MIDI files in the Mozilla Web browser
- MPD the Music Player Daemon, whose "... design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network"
- MPEG4IP "...provides an end to end system to explore MPEG-4 multimedia"
- MuSE application for mixing, encoding, and streaming of MP3 audio
- NAS the Network Audio System (Another descriptive page is located here)
- NetStreamer streaming audio over LAN and ISDN networks
- Network Audio Front-end a streaming-audio alternative to RealAudio
- Now Playing ! network server for MP3 audio
- Open Mash "...supports the Mash streaming media toolkit and...applications based on the Internet Mbone tools and protocols"
- Peep! a network monitoring tool that represents network information via audio output
- PeerCast P2P audio/video broadcasting for everyone
- Polypaudio advanced sound server for *NIX-like systems, from Lennart Poettering
- R-BOSS is the Radio Broadcasting Open Source System, a project from Radio Free Asia
- RadioSuite HD a Linux-based hard-disk storage system (hard/software) for high-performance network broadcasting
- RAP plays RealAudio without X, excellent for the Lynx browser
- RAT the Robust Audio Tool for Internet audio conferences
- RaWrapper controls X11-based streaming-audio (such as RealPlayer) from the command line
- RealAudio the "Real" thing, for Linux too...
- RPlay feature-rich UDP/TCP network audio system
- Sabre Flight Simulator now has a Linux sound server
- Shoutcast
- Shoutcast streaming audio system
- Shout plugins enables listening to Shoutcast from Netscape
- ShoutCastProxy ShoutCast multiplexer, lets multiple clients listen to the same ShoutCast session using only single-client bandwidth
- javashout "...a program for shouting MP3s to a shoutcast server"
- scrEamer takes sound played through EsounD, encodes it to MP3 in real time, and sends it to a Shoutcast server
- shout_tools three CGI programs which provide real-time information about the current song playing on a Shoutcast server
- Sound Server Ideas some thoughts from Fredrik Ohrstrom
- Soundshame a free implementation of the SGI sound server, from Guenter Geiger
- TeraCast a lightweight server for streaming multimedia, from Entera
- USound the "Useful Sound Daemon" from Matt Campbell, "... provides low-latency mixing of multiple audio streams with resampling and limited format conversion, as well as audio recording"
- WWR World Wide Radio, a low-bandwidth Internet radio client/server
- X Audio System specifications for "platform-independent, device-independent, network transparent audio services", a development project from The X Consortium
- WSoundTools audio server software for the Window Maker window manager
- aRts
- aRts the well-known sound server for KDE
- mod_mp3 a module that gives MP3 streaming capabilities to the Apache Web server
- ninjam network jam session software from Torben Hohn
- pongserver "...a bunch of client/server programs that talk to one another...about the current location of the client objects in the server's playing field", from Douglas Irving Repetto
- qVIX/CU30 audio/visual conferencing software