[Tfug] Playing mp3's *on* the server

[Jeremy D. Rogers]

If you find out anything on the web-based control, let me know. I've really
been itching to set up the same thing and then include PVR (MythTV) and
replace half of my entertainment center. I also want to be able to snag the
mp3's and drop them onto the MP3 player I mentioned earlier today (I'll
probably just use NFS or SAMBA if I want windows compat). 

In any case, since you are using an old laptop, you might have an IR port
built in, in which case you should definately check out LIRC.
http://lirc.org/  
I tried this with my laptop connected to my stereo and
used an old remote from a broken stereo (you can program essentially ANY
IR device, so you should be able to find a spare remote for $0) 

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:50:58 -0700 (MST) superbenk at superk.org wrote:

TFUG> Ok, I hope I can explain what I want to do.  I have a crappy old laptop that
TFUG> I'm working on turning into an mp3 playing appliance for my entertainment
TFUG> center.  Using SSH, mp3blaster, a wlan card in the laptop and an NFS server
TFUG> hosting my music collection, I can make this work quite well.  But I'd like a
TFUG> better interface to control the laptop remotely.  Are there any web-based
TFUG> projects out there that will do the same thing I'm doing with mp3blaster on
TFUG> the laptop?  Everything I've found is for streaming from a server to a
TFUG> *local* PC, not for controlling a *remote* PC.  I'd like something that's
TFUG> OS-independent because my wife still uses Windows (thus my request for
TFUG> web-based).
TFUG> 
TFUG> Hope that makes sense.  Thanks in advance!
TFUG> -- 
TFUG> Benjamin Krein
TFUG> www.superk.org


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Jeremy Rogers
Graduate Research Assistant
Optical Sciences Center
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