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Streaming MP3s on Demand?
The Human Cow asks: "My computer teacher lets us listen to music while we code, but the 150 MB network drive limit kind of puts a damper on the variety of music I have access to. CDs and MP3 players are too much of a hassle to keep up with, so I started wondering if there was any way to set up a streaming radio station that was controllable from a remote PC. I looked at Shoutcast again to see if there was some option that I missed, but I didn't find much. Not having any luck on Google, I've decided to turn to you guys. Does anybody know of a program that'll let me set up a playlist at home and then remotely control it from school? Streaming MP3s on demand, maybe?"
I most say, I have never used it, but I did hear it's good. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/
Andromeda
Friends of me use it for their common room music/streaming mp3 setup:
http://tunez.sourceforge.net/
Does anybody know of a program that'll let me set up a playlist at home and then remotely control it from school? Streaming MP3s on demand, maybe?
I'm not sue your school will appreciate the bandwidth costs of 128kbps or more for several hours a day.
A better solution might be a hard-disk based mp3 player; until my Archos crapped out on me (frightfully bad Quality Assurance from Archos) I'd had 55 Gigabytes of music literally in my hand.
For now I'm making do with a Zaurus and a 512 Megabyte SD card -- which is still quite a bit larger than your school's entire hard drive --, and lets me carry around three Gilbert & Sullivan operas, a Sondheim compilation album, and half a dozen renditions of the (former) Soviet National Anthem and the Internationale -- and yes, my musical tastes would raise questions about my heterosexuality were it not for my terrible fashion sense.
Should you insist on a remote controlled solution, you can do what I do with the Zaurus when it's within range of my home Wifi: I use XMMS to either stream shoutcast stations off the 'net, or a Samba into my home PC and play the 55 GBs of music I've (all legally) collected.
Unless you're insistent on allowing multiple users -- and your home PC probably doesn't have that much uploading bandwidth anyway -- Samba's a simple and elegant solution.
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iTunes.
http://www.shoutcast.com/
You can setup the software to stream out MP3s etc and you can use WinAMP or xmms to listen in. Set the administrative page to be viewable from the internet (with user/pass of course) and then you can control the streams from there.
..is an effective solution for your problem. Find it here. I would extoll its benefits directly, but the page linked does quite an effective job there.
open source. cross platform. rocks.
SlimServer
Use a combination of Snowcrash, Winamp, and SHOUTcast. I haven't tried snowcrash with Winamp 5, but it should work.
I believe SHOUTcast has a streaming-on-demand feature, but it's not as nice as Snowcrash.
I am biased as I wrote it, but there was a new release of GNUMP3d yesterday.
THis allows you to stream MP3/OGG Vorbis/MPG/WMV files across a network via a browser interface.
You can search, sort, downsample and generally have a blast.
Check it out?
http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/ looks promising.
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DAMMIT! we only get 20MB at uni!
SURELY NOT!!!!!
Where can I get a teacher like yours?
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You could just install a plugin for XMMS or WinAmp for remote control and remote listening.
Netjuke is great for cataloging and streaming you mp3s over the net. www.netjuke.org
There are plenty of these, just look at Freshmeat-search-results.
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Generally it is a good idea to look there, before asking this at
I use Ampache (a web-based PHP application) to stream my MP3s from the western USA to Europe this year, and it works very well. Sometimes a song stops in the middle, but I have diagnosed that it's a webserver problem, not Ampache, but haven't had time to fix that.
Anyway, see this: ampache.org
Oh yeah, and once you have all the files on your server and in Ampache, you can keep a local cache of the URLs to all the songs. I do this so I never have to use the web interface unless I want to.
My solution for a room of three people (including me): An old PC with a soundcard, a pair of el-cheapo passive speakers, an ISA-Bus FM radio card, and a selfmade floppy-sized Linux. It runs a tiny webserver (mini_httpd), dhcpcd, and three CGIs, one to select the radio station, one to control the soundcard's mixer, and one to control the CDROM drive (Audio CD only). After booting, the sound volume is set to background level, and a local FM station playing acceptable music is tuned in. Now we can control everything via web browser, and (because I had too much time) a CHM (Windows HTML Help) file. Station names are stored in a text file on the DOS-formatted floppy, so we could easily update the station list when needed.
Imagine some better speakers and you have music for the entire classroom. OK, my solution has no MP3 player, but it would require just one more CGI and some kind of mass storage device full of MP3s (CD-R/W, DVD-/+RW, USB Flash, Harddisk, CF, whatever). You may want to look for some self-made Linux-based MP3 players, they usually have a web interface for play lists (and perhaps volume controls).
Tux2000
Denken hilft.
Streamsicle is a decent one for Windows. Web based control of playlist. And lets not forget free!
...don't use any programs at all.
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Get an iPod and one of those nice little widgets that you plug into it that broadcasts the music to anyone listening on a particular FM radio frequency. There seem to be a host of derivatives, but one particular one of note is the iTrip.
(http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itri
It needs no batteries, can vary frequency... and it needs no additional software on your network, so that everyone in the room can "tune in".
M.
Set up shoutcast to stream whatever xmms is putting out. Use one of those xmms-remote programs that lets you control xmms from the command line. Write a small program, in bash or python or something that provides a gui/curses/text interface that will do this: ssh into the box, get list of mp3s, let user select mp3, control xmms from the command line to make that mp3 play. Also allow stopping, pausing, shuffle on/off, etc.
There are also shoutcast server control things that make a web site that controls the server. Often they are not direct control, but a request queue type of thing where you request a song and it gets put in the queue. Get winamp5 and start browsing shoutcast with the minibrowser open, you'll eventually find what I'm talking about.
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I use edna. it has it's own web server and lets me browse all my mp3 music and stream it to my brain while i'm at the university. and very easy to set up.
-- damn you, internet!
I think Streamsicle (http://www.streamsicle.com/) is exectly what you're looking for. It acts like a shoutcast server, but it alows you to dynamically create playlists through a web interface. It's in java so it works on any OS. Sorry no ogg support though. That's really the only major drawback, solid application though. My school blocks windows networking, so I use streamsicle to listen to music in the lab, it's pretty sweet.
Both Winamp and XMMS can play files via HTTP. The only thing you need is HTTP Server, e.g. Apache. This worked fine for me.
/home/user/music/song.ogg -> http://server:8080/song.ogg
Additionally you can write simple playlist converter to convert you local playlist like this:
or
c:\music\song.mp3 -> http://server:8080/song.mp3
I did it last year and it worked fine.
Not exactly what you were asking for but when I was in a similar situation basically what I did was create a few free Yahoo briefcase accounts (each one holds 30 meg but there seems to be a 150meg one for btyahoo customers) and downloaded the songs whenever I wanted them and deleted them when I finished. This only worked because space requirements were only checked at log in time after which I had seemingly infinite space so YMMV depending on the set-up
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shfs website
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step 1, keep all mp3's in a central place
step 2, have ssh access
step 3, locally shfs mount mp3s
step 4,
step 5, profit!
ok, shfs allows you to mount a remote filesystem while only having ssh access. Simply mount the mp3 dir and point xmms or whatever at it and play. Works flawlessly for me.
I spent all my early coding/hacking/bbs days with a portable RCA CD player that cost me $180 and only lasted 3 hours on 4 AA's, thank god for AC adapters.
All the solutions I have seen thus far are either extremely complex, involve writing code (though that doesn't sound to unreasonable for the poster), or Linux-only.
Sheesh. :-)
If you got Shoutcast working, which it sounds like you have, you're halfway there.
Remote access couldn't be easier! Just use VNC.
It's so simple and common, there are Java clients you can use for systems with no local execution allowed. Executable downloads measure in the < 100k range.
Have fun!
Brian
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Easy set up, easy to use. Supports Mac, Lin, Win. You Can See More Here
I semi-agree w/ this guy... if you're in a lab working on your own, or you're in a 9-5 job working for hours on your own and the music helps, fine.
But if you're in a class I'd say keep your headphones off and listen to what's going on... someone might be asking a question, that you think you already know the answer to because you're a cocky asshole, but really don't.
Not to mention the fact that typically people play their headphones (except earbuds) so loud that they disturb those sitting near you...
We were beaten with reeds at my university for not snapping to attention everytime the professor spoke.
QTSS, or the free multiplatform Darwin Streaming Studio, works great for streaming MP3s (and other formats too). Runs on Windoze, RedHat, MacOS X, and probably BSD and other Unix variants if you're good at porting. Has a nice web-based playist editor system and administration is easy. Runs well even on low-spec hardware.
Maybe if you spent less time scolding kids and more time coding or problem solving, then you wouldn't be such an asshole.
Use zina. PHP script that will auto downsample your mp3s via lame if you don't want to stream the full 128/192/whatever. Zina Is Not Andrometa. God I hate those lame acronyms, but there you go... free version of Andro.
Gabe Kangas
netjuke
Numerous good selections above, but also be sure to check out Lincoln's Stein's Apache::MP3 module. Requires Apache and mod_perl, so it is probably UNIX-only, but it rocks.
Shameless plug: I added FLAC and SHN support to the Apache::MP3::Resample module so you can stream your lossless music on your narrow-band connection.
I'd love it if you'd try Jinzora. I'm the primary developer of it (and loyal /. reader). We are nearing our 1.0 release, and we feel that Jinzora is simply put the easiest to us, install, and configure, and is the best looking of all the web based Jukeboxes around. Jinzora can stream via HTTP (including video), playback locally on the server (ala music TiVo), or frontend a shoutcast server so you can use it for a streaming radio station.
Please stop on by at www.jinzora.org, we'd love to have the /. crowd's input! We are VERY open to suggestions/bug/feature requests and try to answer all forum posts VERY quickly!
Try otto.
I have been using it for about 2 years now and it does exactly what you want.
It uses a mysql as a db and a modified shoutcast on the front. It also has a very nice web interface.
Almost any media player can play an mp3 straight from an HTTP source (without any special support for "streaming"), so you could host your MP3s on a web server and then just add URLs to a local playlist.
iTunes, at least on the Mac, used to have the fantastic ability to stream to another copy of iTunes over the internet without a lot of fuss -- sort of Shoutcast for a few people with zero configuration, but better -- you had access to your entire iTunes library, not just a pre-determined stream playlist. I used this to listen to my music while at the office, and it worked great.
Unfortunately, people found a way to use the protocol to download tracks (not capturing the streams, but grabbing the actual tracks), so newer versions of iTunes now only share on the same subnet... basically useless for over the 'net.
What did the walrus say to the penguin? "No soap, radio."
This is a job for Sourceforge! Try selecting "mp3 server" and check the "require all words" box.
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Also, at home I use the brilliant ZINA (Zina Is Not Andromeda) which offers a great way to stream your mp3s on demand.
Just in case you haven't gotten enough suggestions yet, I thought I'd post my favorite. The only reason I ever found it was so that I could stream music to my Rio Receiver without a windows box, but it has evolved much since then and can now stream any kind of media(including shoutcast and other stream sources)to multiple clients. It can do much more than that...Just check out the home page.
/. crowd loves screenshots here's one of a client streaming music, checking out the server status(who is streaming what song), and editing a couple playlists.
Here's an architecture overview of how it all works.
Since I know the
Wort Wort Wort!
Apache::MP3.
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OK, here's a dumb question. Not a troll, just a question.
Why bother streaming the data when the client can simply download the file and play it at the remote site? Music data typically isn't very big and downloads quickly (assuming a 10/100 Mbps network) and there are no issues with jitter, etc.
There are two real reasons for streaming media like this.
Applications like mine also make it nice and simple to download a large collection of songs, for example every track with the word "Girl" in the title - doing that manually by downloading each individual track would be a bit more painful.
Really each to their own .. you don't need to stream, I just find that it works well for me.
Because I have 121 Gigs of sorted MP3's at home, and I want access to ALL of them wherever I am in the house, on the road, and this way I can construct playlists @ home, and stream anything I want to my desk / device at any time!
No I didnt spell check this post...
Edna "allows you to access your MP3 collection from any networked computer. This software streams your MP3s via HTTP to any MP3 player that supports playing off a remote connection". It's about 1,000 lines of Python code, no database needed. It takes about 10 seconds to get up and running.
Personally I used edna, which is an MP3 server written in Python.
Were easy to install, works well, playlists are supported, Winamp and XMMS work well with it.
edna.sourceforge.net
A simple web server made from python that catalogs your music collection, makes a nice page, and streams when you click on titles.
I've been using it for just what you ask for years.
It's pretty simple, but that's kindof why it works so well. And all it needs is python.
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I use Apache::Mp3 to share my music. It's nice because I can easily password protect it with Apache (since we live in these wonderful RIAA sue-happy times) and it's just a standard http access to the music which means every client on the planet supports it. I use iTunes at home and XMMS at work and they both have no problems streaming. I also have a philips streamium in my bedroom which streams from my server as well (though it requires one more special server to get the playlists to it).
Installing it is very simple:
Just 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' and then "install Apache::Mp3". It works on linux, and I even got it working on a Mac OS X beta a few years ago.
I also wrote an mod to Apache::Mp3 to transcode on the fly. So I keep my music in flac format on my server and all the different clients use different formats. My iTunes at home streams wavs from the server, the stremium streams 320Kbit mp3s (since I couldn't get wavs to work), my iTunes at work does 192Kbit mp3s and XMMS at work does 128Kbit oggs.
I'm pretty happy with the setup.
Since you talked about playlists, you can put up playlists and then download them whereever you happen to be. They'll just be a list of URLs to your server. iTunes and XMMS both support that just fine and I image most other music players do as well. And since its your local music player that is controlling the playlist you can randomize it, skip songs, etc. without futzing with the server at all.
It also has a "browse only" feature that you can see in action at http://music.porkrind.org.
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A cheap alternative to iTunes/Archos type hardware solutions is to buy a CD Walkman that can read burned cd's of mp3's. it cost me about $40 for the walkman (I am assuming that your PC already has a CDRW).
The upside: Cheap, portable, non-proprietary
The downside: You may have to burn and carry several cd's.
I just chose my favorite 10% or so of my 30+ Gig collection and burned several cd's. One classical, several rock, etc.
Now, if I could only do this with DVD's...
Please allow me to vary the question slightly
to address my personal puzzlement: Since an
HTTP *stream* delivers data over a TCP *stream*
what is different about playing your MP3 from
a gnump3d *stream* as opposed to playing it
from a web browser (a playlist being a web
page, perhaps query-generated using
php/jsp/asp/mason/etc)? I mean, what
addutional function or value does it
provide to use gnump3d?
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I was assuming in the first question the download was related to a webserver - having just a raw directory index, or hierarchy.
In that case, as you say, the streaming is pretty much identical.
The real difference is with my project, and others like it, you can create playlists, control downsampling on the fly, see a list of the most recent tracks served, have a realtime list of currently streaming files and more.
For me personally I use the GUI a lot due to having a large archive of music - and the single killer feature is the ability to search.
I can instantly create a playlist filled with songs by a single artist, or of a particular genre.
The code is extensible, and the GUI is themable, so there are many more interesting things that can be done - for example one think I've been thinking of writing for a while is a time-filler. Type in a time and have it return a random playlist which lasts just that amount of time.
A simple means of filling 30 minutes whilst working for example.
Other options and features are available, but I hope I've cleared it up a little bit anyway..
I like Apache::MP3 also. Namp! is the name of the project when all the bits are rolled together (apache, mod_perl, perl, Apache::MP3). Also CPAN is your friend.
.htaccess file. I'm pretty sure it *will* work on Windows, Apache, perl, & mod_perl are all available on the platform, it's just more work because all those components aren't already there.
.htaccess to secure it, the username & password will be a part of the URL for each streamed track and may be clearly visible on the desktop, depending on which streaming client you're using. Also some older clients may not work with URLs that include the user:pass in it. It's been a while but I think Windows Media Player was the one that gave me the most trouble.
There's a demo site so you can see the default interface and try some streams (Apache::MP3 includes a "demo" mode which stops the streams after 30 seconds).
You can block casual access with a simple
I'll tell you two problems I've run into. If you use username/passwords in
Embedded album art in a track may also cause trouble for some clients, specifically iTunes and RealOne (v9 at least, haven't tried the beta). In my testing the album art was added by MusicMatch and iTunes adds them another way (so each app can't see the other's album art) so how the art is added to the track may be a factor. Actually, I think it's more likely that some clients just can't handle streaming tracks with too many bytes of ID3 tag data but I haven't tried any experiments to prove it.
Whether or not you can fast forward or rewind *within* a track depends upon the client. WinAmp does it like a champ. I'm pretty sure Xmms does too. iTunes does not. Someone has told me RealOne Player can do it but it hasn't worked for me.
iTunes is a bad streaming client because it permanently adds each streamed track to your Library. You have to manually select and delete them to clean it up.
If you don't want to bother streaming your own music, I recommend the "Internet radio station" RadioParadise. 128Kbps (or lower in a variety of formats, eclectic, listener-supported, no ads.
http://www.streamsicle.com/
'Nuff said.
Or Nullsoft's own wwwinamp:
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/wwwinamp/
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It's an open source solution written in php. It's similar to the for profit Andromeda. It allows full access to your collection on an ad hoc basis. It supports Ogg and mp3. It's very easy to use. You can find it here.
werks fine for me
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Because I have 121 Gigs of sorted MP3's at home
Man, that's a lot of music. If an average song is 6 megs, that's over 20,000 songs - are you planning to open a music store?
iTunes can do this. You would have to use a 3rd party DAAP daemon though.
Shoutcast + VNC
Sure, it's not the most elegant solution, but it's worked for me for the past 2+ years just fine =)
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The stream at my site uses shoutcast, winamp (2.x series this is important), and another app called wwwinamp http://projects.halo8.net/.
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wwwinamp allows me to control the winamp playlist via a web interface from anywhere in the world.
Email me for more details if you wish at:
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icecast 2 is a good option (http://www.icecast.org) and you can use it to setup multiple playlists and the playlists are easy to generate using a few command line programs. i've used this before and like it, but there aren't too many options as far as the web controls go. icecast is teh server part and ices is the client developed by the same people that connects in and streams stuff (you can also use xmms to stream directly into icecast and if you run vnc can then vnc into your box and skip songs, control playlist, etc).
m ing/) for awhile and it has better controls for the web as far as setting up your playlists go, but as my mp3s are sorted into directories for each album, the web interface came to be a pain when trying to generate a playlist.
i also used darwin streaming server (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/strea
No worries about bandwidth issues and you can take it anywhere.
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They're getting more and more affordable over time
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Just get a freaking iPod! Why the heck would you want to waste your schools bandwidth or drive space with MP3's? Another thing, it would open the school up to problems with the RIAA who is already going after students and some of the schools themselves. I am sure you would catch holy hell if a SysAdmin found your MP3 collection on the schools server!
Companies are paranoid about this sort of thing and most block MP3 files with their proxy servers and are already scanning drives looking for MP3's on employee machines.
The iPod will handle everything self contained in a portable form. 40GB's if you get the biggest iPod.
Most people could carry their entire music collection on a single iPod. Even if you can't fit it all on the iPod, you can at least load a huge amount. More then you could possibly listen to in a single day.
If you want to connect it to speakers, there are small kits for that or you just plug it into PC speakers. Heck, you can even broadcast a signal with an iPod accessory to other's with FM Walkmans to listen to the music if you wish to use headphones.
iTunes will stream the playlists to another iTunes computer on the same subnet. Gasp, you could even use the Windows version of iTunes if you must. There are ways around the subnet thing. Streaming from a home computer to the campus will probably suck up huge amounts of bandwidth on both ends. If you have a cable modem at home, prepare to be slapped for exceeding a bandwidth cap. Also you might attract the attention of a network sysadmin on campus when they notice the bandwidth spike.
As far as development goes, nothing beats an Apple laptop with the developer tools and few other things thrown in. C/C++, ObjC, Java, Tomcat, JBOSS, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, Emacs, ViM, CVS, etc., etc. Plus you can get Microsoft Office X which is completely compatible with Office XP. You can even get Virtual PC along with Office X to run other Windows based software if you must.
There have been lots of great suggestions from you guys, and I plan on trying them out this week.
In response to the "why don't you just get an HDD-based player" replies, I have an Archos Recorder 20 that I've filled up, but it's too much of a pain to tote back and forth to school with no real secure place to leave it. Plus, my school has bandwidth to spare. I pay enough to go there that they can let me use 128 kb/s for an hour a day.
But again, thanks.
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look it up. you can stream to winamp with it. and other mp3 players too I'm sure. just make a play list and paly.
zina is great, it simply requires an apache server and mod_php on whatever server your songs live on. It can stream, create playlists, randomize, and down-sample songs (if you have LAME installed) on the fly. Zina is also listed at Freshmeat. I have only used it as a stand-alone server, but it also plugs into Postnuke and PHPNuke.
I've been using Edna for a few years now, and it works like a charm. Made with python and runs in Linux and Windows (as a service).
You could use ml_www written by Justin Frankel and open sourced, it will provide a searchable, streamable Winamp media library avaliable through your web browser.
I know there is a plugin for Winamp (v2 at least) that you can load and it lets you remote control someone else's Winamp player. Arguably you could use this plus Shoutcast to achieve the desired effect.
:) Eventually they would figure it out but it was fun for a while...
Winamp "server" with RC plugin plus Shoutcast plugin -> Shoutcast server streaming music -> Internet -> Winamp "client" with RC plugin controlling the music on the "server"
I used this RC plugin to mess with friends in college.
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roomjuice My very own pet project that I started over 2 years ago when I wanted to do the same thing and couldn't find anything I liked.
For GNUMP3d:
What about FLAC support since they are not lossy?
Would it be possible to take a repository of FLAC files and deliver them one at a time as say ogg vorbis quality 4 files dynamically?
If that's too much work to do, would it be possible to request the system convert FLAC files into temporary ogg files by way of a playlist (uploaded or otherwise)? You could have a queue for each user. As the CPU/memory is available, temporarily encode the files (and remove ones no longer being requested after X amount of time).
Who wants to permanently store/rip MP3s when they are lossy? There will always be a better lossy compression format to convert nonlossy FLAC files to.
Considering the space requirements of FLAC, I doubt the server operator would mind some temporary ogg files.
handle it from the client side. set up a simple ftp server and find a media player that can read ftp servers.
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Is that you that has 7 Britney Spears songs on one of the screenshots? :)
Nullsoft provides a free/open source interface to winamp which accomplishes this.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/wwwinamp/
Be sure to broadcast to the entire world you are doing something shady.. so the RIAA can come get you..
On a more serious note, its a bad idea to stream audio outside the campus, you will hose the bandwidth and piss off the admins.
You are better off just getting a small cheapo MP3 player with a harddrive
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Works well for me at the office.
Its easy to setup, it streams, has playlists..
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Tunez is utterly cool and gets over the problem of people squabbling abut what album/playlist to play - collaborative filtering. Wahoo!
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http://slimp3.com/pi_features.html
No, but I am wiring up my house for those Slimp players in each room with overhead speakers in the ceilings. I want to have the slimp devices built flush into the wall next to the light switch. :)
No I didnt spell check this post...
Take a look at Zina:
http://www.pancake.org/zina.html
It works great.
Since everyone is plugging their own programs that do this, I'll plug mine: Gronk.
It gives you a FreeDB-driven web-based playlist manager and controls a running XMMS process. The XMMS Oddcast DSP plugin lets it shout to a local Icecast server so you can listen locally or remotely.
I also like the Crossfade plugin, for smooth transitions between songs.
First, I make Andromeda, so thanks for suggesting it.
It so happens that I just put up new reviews and overview pages.
And the Andromeda home page itself is http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda.
fwiw, I've been working on Andromeda since 1999...
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
Also perhaps of interest to Slashdot readers, check this out from Larry Lessig's blog
A quote from his new book, "Free Culture":
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
Ahhh.... good old days.... can share iTunes library across the Internet until some suckers like ileech and itunsdl come out, forcing Apple to downgrade the feature.
Meanwhile, you can setup a rendezvous proxy with ileech, work on Mac and PC.
Meanwhile I'm happy with my iPod....
Not trolling or anything, but I am seriously interested in why shoutcase with perhaps a few addon's won't work.
Since you happen to be around now, I'd like to ask a question... Is there any way to make it install out-of-the-box under OS X? (10.3.3 in particular)
/usr, while Perl on OS X is under /System. It is a one line fix for me, but I'm sure that someone has trouble with it...
bin/getlibdir only searches under
Great program, amazing how many people walk up behind me and go "hey, is that your music?" Its always fun to show them how easy it is.
Thanks!
121 gigs..........man, thats less than HALF of my collection.
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I moderate therefore I rule!
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I don't have access to a Mac OS X machine to test it on - if you have a fix then mail it to me and it will be included.
That's the best I can I'm afraid. Unless I get a pretty shiny laptop of my own ..