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

[superbenk at superk.org]

I found the perfect solution!  There is a project out here called MPD
(Music Player Daemon - http://www.musicpd.org) that allows you to create &
play playlists through the server's sound device.  There are several other
projects that allow you to connect to this daemon and control it either
locally or remotely across your network.  The daemon can be configured to
accept requests through a specified port (2100 by default) and by specific
hosts (ANY host by default).

For my solution, I decided to use MPD Commander as my client application. 
It's ported to both Windows and Linux and has a VERY XMMS/WinAmp
look/feel.  I have my MP3's stored on my file server in the garage and
shared via NFS to this old laptop in my entertainment center (via WLAN -
802.11G (though G speeds really aren't necessary for audio at all)).  The
laptop is running SuSE 9.1 (mostly because I didn't have a network card to
do an FTP install of Debian which I'd prefer and may switch to
eventually).  The laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite AMD-K6 450Mhz, 128MB
RAM, 2GB HDD.  It's more than adequate to deliver decent stereo audio to
my stereo through a headphone jack -> RCA jack cable.

Unfortunately this laptop doesn't have IR and I'm not sure how you'd
control MPD with IR anyhow, so for now, one of my other computers serves
as a sort of "remote control".

So there you have it!  I'll keep playing with this setup to see what else
I can expect from it and more on how it works.  There is another project
that tries to integrate MPD into NetJuke via a patch to NetJuke and a
custom PHP::MPD class.  I didn't have much luck with it, but you can find
info about it here: http://mpd.24oz.com.

If anyone out there has experience with this setup and has any hint/tips,
I'd love to hear about them!

Benjamin Krein
www.superk.org

>
> 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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