Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:52:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: stan <stanb@panix.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Nice web interface or music? Message-ID: <20090101192752.K53198@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20090101230343.GA27076@teddy.fas.com> References: <20090101190111.GA21878@teddy.fas.com> <20090101152825.F53198@tripel.monochrome.org> <20090101204822.GB23840@teddy.fas.com> <20090101161436.X53198@tripel.monochrome.org> <20090101230343.GA27076@teddy.fas.com>
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Please keep the list cc'd since others may know more than I do. On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: >> Sorry for the brevity earlier. The squeezecenter software is intended >> for use in supporting the Squeezebox family of hardware music players >> made by Logitech, hence the "congrats". You *don't* actually have to >> create any account, and I'm not sure why they ask you to. You don't >> have to buy a player either; I use the included Java Web Start >> "virtual player". On the web interface, look under Extras -> >> SoftSqueeze and use either the applet or the JWS. Or you could buy a >> player [later], or both. > > Thanks for taking the time to help out with this. What I am trying to > do is make the music available to some friends of mine, who live in a > diferent city. I want them to be ble to downlaod the songs, so that > can play them on thier Ipods, and alos listen to the music streamed > from my machine. I would first get it working on your local network, then work on the remote part. > OK, I downloaded, and ran that. > >> >> You also need to put your music on the server in order to serve it >> (!). I have mine in a hierarchy of directories for artists and >> albums, but I guess you could just put your (properly tagged) mp3s on >> the machine somewhere. Tell squeezecenter where it is and have it >> re-scan. > > Right, I have them in the webservers tree. I figured out how to point > the software at them, and created a new directory for the "project", > Now I can work my way through picking musinc, but when I press that > "play" Icon (right hand top of the screen). it does not play the misc. > What am I doing wrong? I'm guessing that when you say "screen", you mean the web interface to the Squeezecenter server, accessed via http://your_servers_ip:9000. That screen talks to the server; it does not control the local machine on which you are browsing to it. Presumably the local machine has the X display, sound card etc. Just to confuse the issue some more, the server can run on the same machine as you're browsing from. Although you don't need to buy a hardware player, you (and whatever friends want to listen later) will have to run some sort of player. As I said before, if you don't want to buy a hardware player you can use either of the two built-in Java-based software players. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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