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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
