"David Feldman" wrote > > Slimserver allows the control of any player through the command line. > > Check > > out the "technical information" section of slimserver for the > > documentation > > of how to do this. > > Cool, thanks. A follow-up question: > > Since I won't actually be looking at the screen and can control the > player from the command line, it makes sense to forget the softsqueeze > and use something that doesn't require X. (Then I can eliminate X from > the SUSE install altogether, not boot into it, or, I suppose, install a > stripped-down Linux like Gentoo.) Is there a simple player with either > no UI or a command-line UI that will still support playing of AAC files > from a Linux-installed slimserver? > > Something that actually has its own command-line UI seems like it might > make the most sense, since then I won't need to make a second > connection out to the server to control it. But obviously that's not > essential. > > Thanks again, > --Dave
I'm not familiar with all the available linux apps out there, but anything that is capable of playing an mp3 stream should work. Just point it at http://slimserverhostcomputer:9000/stream.mp3 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
