In most cases Gnump3d is used as a home music mp3 server, so you can listen to your mp3s from any computer, which is great but not exactly what it will be used for in a corporate environment. However, Gnump3d can be useful in many other ways. It streams in mp3 and ogg format. Any video presentation saved in ogg format, or audio instructional notes in mp3, can be well categorized, updated and made accessible to the company. In this manner it can definitely be useful. Here is how to install and configure Gnump3d Media Server:
1. Open Smart and search for gnump3d, the install it.
2. Now open a terminal and become su, then open gnump3d.conf file with your favorite editor. You can find it at /etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf
gedit /etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf
3, By default multimedia files location is /var/music.If you want to change this to /home/music using the following steps
Search for the following line
root = /var/music
Replace with the following line
root = /home/music
Find this line
user = gnump3d
Replace with the following line
user = root
Save and exit file
Restart gnump3d service using the following command
/etc/init.d/gnump3d restart
4. Now open your browser to http://localhost:8888/
