[mythtv-users] mythmusic alternatives

[Robert]

Steve Smith wrote:
> Yes a MythSqueeze gets my vote! Slimserver is in place and has lots of 
> features,
> we've got SoftSqueeze already as a standalone client, MvpMC also 
> implements a Slimserver client
> on the Hauppuage MVP it's an ideal fit!
> 
> Just need someone to integrate SoftSqueeze into Myth....
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 

 From glancing at it, I'm not sure this does what I want.  Maybe someone 
can confirm or deny (or I could just read the manual!)

I don't want to stream music over my network, I want to play music _on_ 
my mythbox (since it is connected to my hifi and decent speakers) but be 
able to control what it playing either via mythfrontend running on the 
TV, or from a remote web front end running on my laptop / pda / phone / 
whatever.  I don't (necessairly) want the sound to come out of the 
device I'm using to control what is playing as my laptop speakers and 
rubbish and sound tinny. (Although I guess I would want to stream 
sometimes...)

Playlist manangement using a remote control is too tedious.  I just want 
to be able to drag and drop from a remote (web) frontend on another PC.

> 
> On 03/07/07, *David Greaves* < myth at dgreaves.com 
> <mailto:myth at dgreaves.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Robert Longbottom wrote:
>      > I've been using mythmusic for a while and it's okay, but I'd also
>     like to
>      > find something better.  In my opinion, what I want is a music playing
>      > application that follows a server-client model.  Let me explain;
>      >
>      > You have a "music server" app running on your mythbox.  This app
>     has no
>      > user interface, but it knows about your music collection, holds your
>      > playlists, and can play music on your speakers.  This app runs
>     24/7 in the
>      > background.
>     Calliope - but this is 'wrong' a backend has no multimedia output
>     (ie no speakers)
> 
>      >
>      > You then have multiple "frontends" - these front ends talk to the
>     "music
>      > server" backend.  They can get lists of songs, start a song
>     playing, stop
>      > a song playing, get status info (what is playing, etc), they can
>     manage
>      > playlists.  The idea here is that you have a "MythMusicFrontend"
>     that is
>      > nicely integrated with Myth, and a WebFrontend that allows you to
>      > start/stop/manage playlists from a remote laptop / pda / whatever
>     via your
>      > network.
>     Slimserver + Sqeezeboxes
>     You can use 'softsqueeze' as a client.
> 
>     Far more mythish.
> 
>     A Mythsqueeze client would be good and would 'fit'.
> 
>     David
> 
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