Andrew Crosby wrote:
Hi
i am trying to make a headless media player;
it would be nice if it could do the following:
Play headless be able to be used by non Linux users (flatties) have an HTML/Web interface for making and loading play lists be able to stream music to other devices
I've used tunez for a kind of web-radio setup, which works fine. It uses an icecast stream, so anything that can read that stream can play it. It doesn't let you do multiple playlists though. Check freshmeat.net for other ideas.
be able to rip cds automatically
There's a number of tools to do this, but I can't remember the name of the one I used unfortunately. Look on freshmeat.net. I found one that was a perl script that ran as a daemon, waiting for an audio cd to be inserted. It would then rip it, look up the tracks on CDDB, and rename it for you. Perry, one of the other wlug members, is writing a one-shot program to do this as well. It wouldn't be too hard to make this automatic (eg, run on audio disc insertion).
be able to serve general files (samba)
Just install samba, pointing at the directory you have your mp3s.