Nice! I hadn't heard of that before... I will have to check it out at some stage. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Hi all
Came across the nifty SqueezeCenter today: http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_features.html
It's a perl-based, open-source, mp3-streaming server with a really cool web-interface.
Installation is fairly simple, if you're running Ubuntu (or any debian-based distro): http://wiki.slimdevices.com/?DebianPackage
It basically involves the following steps: - add the following line to your apt sources list ("sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list"): deb http://debian.slimdevices.com unstable main - update the cache sudo apt-get update - and install the center sudo apt-get install squeezecenter
A minimal setup after installation finishes is just providing the top-most directory of your MP3 collection. Just point your browser to the center's address (http://A.B.C.D:9000/) and click your way through the wizard (no need for registration or those little SqueezeBox players).
After the initial setup and the collection scan has finished, just point any MP3 player that can handle URLs, like Rhythmbox, to the server's streaming URL (http://A.B.C.D:9000/stream.mp3), select your machine as "player" in the web interface and just add songs to your playlist, play/pause/stop streaming, etc.
That is the killer-app for my home-network that I was looking for for ages, providing an easy to use web-interface for streaming my MP3s over WLAN! The cool thing is, that each machine connecting to the center maintains its own playlist. Ideal if you don't like your flatmates taste of music or your partner can't stand your strange music collection. ;-)
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/<http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Efracpete/>+64 (7) 838-4466 Ext. 5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug