On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:01:42 Philippe Andersson wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two.
I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my amplifier downstairs when I'm not working in the study. Quite reasonable I think. I've looked at shoutcast, icecast and streamtunes all of which seem to need a playlist configuring on the server, while I want to pick and choose from the XP machine. Can anybody recommend an easy way to do this?
On the server side, have a look at "Slimserver" (it's a GPL Perl script with a powerful web interface):
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
On the client side, you could use "softsqueeze", a Java-based client for Slimserver:
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/
(Thanks, Frank ;-) ).
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A. This seems like a good solution, but damned if I can get the client to connect to the server. I can get iTunes to connect to it though so I'm assuming there is a problem in the softsqueeze client somewhere.
Couple of other points o Can't get the slimserver toscan my music files - it adds them if I manually go to a directory and view the files o Can't get iTunes to play a song unless I add it to the playlist in the slimserver web interface, so I have to walk upstairs to change the playlist :-( Thanks for the pointers though. Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org