Yay! I finally found a similar application to stream media to my PS3.
I used to use TVersity which is an excellent application, but unfortunately - they don't support Linux aka Ubuntu yet. Since I use Ubuntu as my primary operating system of choice, I was without my music collection of 18 Gb worth of stuff.
I found out about Mediatomb via the Ubuntu forums and promptly installed it via:
sudo aptitude install mediatomb
Server GUI runs on port 49152 on my system, and the server itself on port 49153. After a quick bit of configuration which involved setting the directories that needed to be scanned i.e. recursive MP3 paths, I was up and running. The mighty PS3 picked up the new media server without even scanning, so I assume this is done automagically.
Mediatomb set itself to automatically run on boot, which I was able to verify by popping in to the Webmin server config page.
I'll post back with any anomalies I may discover, but hopefully it will be all plain sailing from now on. What an excellent piece of open-source software!
JG
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