Developer:Audio Transport

Linn's DS players use industry standard networking technology for audio transport and control.

Audio Transport Requirements

Linn's DS players will play an audio stream from any network server that supports the following requirements.

• HTTP 1.1 Partial GET

or

• HTTP 1.1 GET (MP3 streams only)
• Audio stream is identified, and can be accessed by a fully qualified HTTP URL

The audio can be pull-based (eg requesting music on demand from network storage), or push-based streams, (eg internet radio).

Examples

Examples of servers that support these requirements:

• Apache Web Server - http://www.apache.org/
• Lighttpd Web Server
• Twonky Media Server
• icecast http://www.icecast.org/ and SHOUTCast http://www.shoutcast.com/