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?
To play AAC files you really need to use Softsqueeze, otherwise your files will be transcoded to mp3. To start Softsqueeze in headless mode use: java -Dskins=headless -jar SoftSqueeze.jar
I know that some recent versions are broken and won't work headlessly, but you should be alright with version 1.16.
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.
It should be pretty easy to add in some simple commands to the Softsqueeze command line (e.g. Play, Pause, Rew, Fwd, etc.) but not so easy to add a command-line display. Let me know if adding the commands would be useful, I might have some time tomorrow to squeeze it in ;).
Regards, Richard
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