Last weekend I installed Subsonic on my Gentoo box with the intention of being able to stream my music library at home to my machine at work. I have to admit that I am a little sad that I didn't come across this application earlier. Not only does it work out of the box, but I have been thoroughly impressed with the usability of it over my DSL's paltry 384K upload.
The prompting factor in this was the headache that I was encountering trying to keep 40GB of music synced between my home system and my work laptop. Using SolarWinds' Orion at work, I was able to tell that the stream was negligible on our network.
If anyone is looking for a solution to stream their music library over the LAN or the internet, I would highly suggest this piece of software.
