On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete@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/ +64 (7) 838-4466 Ext. 5174
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