Phil Burness wrote: > I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on > it. (Love Amarok) > I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). > I have a wireless connection between the two. > > I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my > amplifier downstairs when I'm not working in the study. > Quite reasonable I think. > I've looked at shoutcast, icecast and streamtunes all of which seem to need a > playlist configuring on the server, while I want to pick and choose from the > XP machine. > Can anybody recommend an easy way to do this? On the server side, have a look at "Slimserver" (it's a GPL Perl script with a powerful web interface):
<http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html> On the client side, you could use "softsqueeze", a Java-based client for Slimserver: <http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/> (Thanks, Frank ;-) ). HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
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