[mythtv-users] Controlling mythmusic from mythweb
John Wilson
jwilson at transim.com
Wed Jan 19 19:20:48 EST 2005
>> While we wait for remote control in MythMusic, can anyone recommend a
>> Linux web app for playing music locally? I have searched all over,
>> but all the web apps that I have seen that have a decent interface
>> (f.ex. Andromeda) seem to be designed to stream audio to the web
>> client instead of playing it on the server. It seems a bit of a
>> waste to stream music to my laptop when the machine they are hosted
>> on is already connected to the home theatre amp :-)
>> Eggert
> Commandline: mplayer - or why not use myth?
>Well, personally I prefer a web interface over picking music with a
>remote control. I realize that I can ssh into the mythbox and run
>mplayer, but I just find it a bit strange that with all the impressive
>looking streaming web apps that seem to be out there, I can't find a
>single one that has an option of sending the files to mplayer instead
>of streaming them.
Well, I use mpd. It's got a php client, a command line client, a curses client, etc...
http://www.musicpd.org/
~John
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