Re: networked audio
This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name mpg123 - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name mpg123 - Well, that's simple enough:) plus being pretty sharp because it works. mplayer - works from the cmd line but tries and fails to seek backward to the origin. thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name mpg123 - Well, that's simple enough:) plus being pretty sharp because it works. mplayer - works from the cmd line but tries and fails to seek backward to the origin. Have you looked at audio/xmms2? It uses a client/server model but is audio only. [http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page] Other possibilities is a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) server and clients. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers] Some modern stereo equipment (e.g. Philips Streamium) has ethernet/WiFi capability and can play material from a UPnP media server. So you could have your music/video library on a server, with your stereo playing music from that library over a wireless link. Cool eh? I'm not sure if these things fall in the simple category, though. :-) Especially if there's wifi involved as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp5OdyrdiAMU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: networked audio
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:50:27PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name mpg123 - Well, that's simple enough:) plus being pretty sharp because it works. mplayer - works from the cmd line but tries and fails to seek backward to the origin. Have you looked at audio/xmms2? It uses a client/server model but is audio only. [http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page] Other possibilities is a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) server and clients. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers] Some modern stereo equipment (e.g. Philips Streamium) has ethernet/WiFi capability and can play material from a UPnP media server. So you could have your music/video library on a server, with your stereo playing music from that library over a wireless link. Cool eh? I'm not sure if these things fall in the simple category, though. :-) Especially if there's wifi involved as well. Wow. No wifi yet; still have a maze of cables. My stereo stuff in from the last century:-) but it's nice to know that the newer equipment has ethernet capabilities. Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). For now, what Wojciech suggested works, but since most of my ~/Music files are ogg format, mpg123 may not be sufficient. ``locate xmms2'' found audio/gxmms2; under construction! T.Y. gary Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just after bringing it home from the shop, it will be considered outdated, and there's already something new on the way that's completely incompatible with everything you have. :-) For now, what Wojciech suggested works, but since most of my ~/Music files are ogg format, mpg123 may not be sufficient. How about ogg123 then? Same use. % cat oggfiles | rsh -l username remote.computer.name ogg123 - ``locate xmms2'' found audio/gxmms2; under construction! Check /usr/ports/audio/xmms2, found out by % cd /usr/ports % make search name=xmms2 -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:01:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just after bringing it home from the shop, it will be considered outdated, and there's already something new on the way that's completely incompatible with everything you have. :-) For now, what Wojciech suggested works, but since most of my ~/Music files are ogg format, mpg123 may not be sufficient. How about ogg123 then? Same use. % cat oggfiles | rsh -l username remote.computer.name ogg123 - ``locate xmms2'' found audio/gxmms2; under construction! Check /usr/ports/audio/xmms2, found out by % cd /usr/ports % make search name=xmms2 I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a wav123, an au123, c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a flac123. i'll be [bleeped]. ANyway, re xmms2, it's built (I had it but since there was no front end and since i really didn't want to spejnt days messing with it, I never used it. I've got gxmms2 working on my linux desktopk, but it only works locally. How do I use [gx]mms2 to go over the wire to the audio-server I'm building, show me the playlist here and play thru my better speakers? I had imagined something like: % xmms2 -r zen:/home/kline/Music/ where the -r would indicate remote ... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a wav123, an au123, c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a flac123. i'll be [bleeped]. :-) ANyway, re xmms2, it's built (I had it but since there was no front end and since i really didn't want to spejnt days messing with it, I never used it. I've got gxmms2 working on my linux desktopk, but it only works locally. How do I use [gx]mms2 to go over the wire to the audio-server I'm building, show me the playlist here and play thru my better speakers? I had imagined something like: % xmms2 -r zen:/home/kline/Music/ where the -r would indicate remote ... Re xmms2 Miniprod malquoted operations. :-) Because I haven't installed xmms2 on my system, I'm not 100 percent sure, but according to http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page it seems that you have to run xmms2 on the box that holds your files (server) and control the program's operations via the computer with the better speakers (client) by means of an xmms2 client application. http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Using_the_application A daemonic concept. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:41:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a wav123, an au123, c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a flac123. i'll be [bleeped]. :-) ANyway, re xmms2, it's built (I had it but since there was no front end and since i really didn't want to spejnt days messing with it, I never used it. I've got gxmms2 working on my linux desktopk, but it only works locally. How do I use [gx]mms2 to go over the wire to the audio-server I'm building, show me the playlist here and play thru my better speakers? I had imagined something like: % xmms2 -r zen:/home/kline/Music/ where the -r would indicate remote ... Re xmms2 Miniprod malquoted operations. :-) Because I haven't installed xmms2 on my system, I'm not 100 percent sure, but according to http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page it seems that you have to run xmms2 on the box that holds your files (server) and control the program's operations via the computer with the better speakers (client) by means of an xmms2 client application. http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Using_the_application A daemonic concept. =^_^= nEat that these guys have a wiki page! it just makes learning hte fine-grain details so much easier. I was just out downing a couple cups of coffee and did install the *xmms2* stuff on my to-be music server. I come back, read your mail, and now am browsing the xmms2 wiki pages. It'll take a couple hours to get the configuration done, but then, hey, i'm home free and clear:_) thankee, gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? The only suite I tried was NAS but that was years ago. I've found MuSe and NMM on both FreeBSD and Linux, but still need some clues. Perhaps icecast or musicpd are what you're looking for. HTH. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networked audio
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:31:00 +0200, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: The only suite I tried was NAS but that was years ago. I've found MuSe and NMM on both FreeBSD and Linux, but still need some clues. I use samba (a bit tricky but it can be done). Wanted to use NFS but unfortunatelly I couldn't get any NFS clients working on xp 64. On other unix/linux system it works incredibly great (astonishing great even). If it were up to me I would choose NFS over Samba and any other similar app because: 1) It's idioticly simple to set up 2) Unbelivable performance 3) Accomodates windows, unix and linux (the latter 2 have native suport for it; tryed solaris 10, freebsd, openbsd, slackware, fedora, vector, and the list can continue; some big problems on xp64; moderate problems on xp32) 4) Less buggy the samba 5) Easyer to configure/maintain etc... Personally am not so fond of icecast and similar apps because it's so much easyer to have 1 app doing all you need. Let me explain here. Wioth NFS I mount (in Windows) a share under a letter and set it to automount every login. It's so much easyer to have full access to that share as if it were a local partition then having 1 app for winamp, another for file sharing, another for god-knows what else, and so on. But then again, that's just me :) Best regards, Claudius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
