Utlimate Home Network Setup - Is this possible?

[Luddite]

Greetings and thanks for the resource. I've been using MM for a number of years now to manage my personal music collection. I am now looking to make it accessible to anyone on my home network, and I am a little stumped as to how. I am only concerned with music, not video, and have them separated to different collections in MM.

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Here is my goal:

Management system - Files & DB reside here, MM is running and managing files. Full RW access.

Client Systems:
iTunes running on Mac. I use iTunes for some minor Video management and syncing iStuff. I would like iTunes to see my music collection, but with Read Only access.
iStuff - What client(s) would be good. Again, read only access
Ubuntu Desktop(s) - another read only client.
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So basically I want to be able to access from any reasonably modern platform read only, and mange from the central hosting system. Is this possible with DLNA, some other MM plugin, or what?

Thanks in advance for any help/guidance/etc.

[nohitter151]

Yes, it's possible. Just enable Media sharing in MM (Options > Media sharing). Though iTunes is not compatible with standard DLNA (they opt for their own proprietary sharing solution) so that won't work. You could use some other app on your Mac as a client though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UP ... s#Mac_OS_X

[Peke]

try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC

[heronheart]

I have my old Windows XP box running MM 4.1 Beta and have it streaming to my android phone, other Windows computers and to to my WDTV Live. Unfortunately, I can't get it to stream to my main desktop computer which runs Ubuntu 13.40. I've tried several DLNA players including Banshee and VLC. they can "see" the MediaMonkey server, but it's greyed out and clicking on it has no effect. Any ideas on how I can get this working?

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey 4.1 is no longer beta so you should start with checking if you're running the final release (or the latest beta of MediaMonkey 4.1.1).

Then in the MediaMonkey Server settings make sure the Linux PC is allowed access and that conversion rules are passing songs in a format understood by the Linux PC (the DLNA client software).