On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:02 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dylan wrote: > > On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 20:43 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>Dylan wrote: > >>>Hi List, > >>> > >>>This may be somewhat off topic, but I figure some of you may well > >>>know the answer... > >>> > >>>I'm trying to set up an audio server to connect to my home stereo, > >>>and have been looking for an app with the following features: web > >>>based interface for playlisting, and playback through local sound > >>>card. > >>> > >>>I've found plenty of options which provide streaming, but none > >>>which play through the server's own sound system. > >> > >> have client on the same machine. > > > > I don't want to stream the audio anywhere at all. Why on earth > > should I have to install, configure and maintain a streaming server > > and client when I can simply have the machine play the file > > directly - less resources used, less to go wrong, less to worry > > about. > > you have to install, configure and maintain jukebox a player > anyway, To my mind, the application which indexes and organises the media files need have nothing to do with the playing of said files, except that it needs to be able to call a player app. > whether they communicate via network (streaming) or not is > not really a big issue... or a big difference in resources used. I'm sorry, but I disagree. > Most > jukeboxes use external players anyway. Good, I hope they are able to use a player of my choice. > Or do you want jukebox with > built-in player? Definitely not. > Freeamp could possibly be used as jukebox (I found > it somewhat unstable but haven't used it for quite some time). Or > xmms with some plugin (there are some plugins that offer better > control than default playlist). And instead of web interface use X > across network (or vnc if you want to be able to disconnect/reconnect > from/to jukebox/player). There's no X on this box - why should there be if it's headless? If I was intending to have this server stream to clients on the network then, yes, configuring it to stream to itself would be appropriate. But I'm not - that introduces all sorts of timing and bandwidth issues. Dylan > > erik -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -Dark Helmet
