I can second <a href="http://www.mp3act.net/">http://www.mp3act.net/</a> as a GREAT solution. If I remember the issue with getting the jukebox working is a permissions issue. I added the following to my sudoers and made the mp3act call sudo for the kill and play commands.
<br><br><br>apache ALL = NOPASSWD: \<br> /usr/bin/mpg123, /bin/kill<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Guardiani</b> <<a href="mailto:jesse@wingnet.net">jesse@wingnet.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Saturday 04 March 2006 9:21 pm, Gabe Rubin wrote:<br>> I just set up a new backend/frontend that has completely digital
<br>> outputs (sound and video). I have my music from my desktop computer<br>> mounted via samba to the mythbox. Playing music via myth is no<br>> problem as intended, but with several thousand music files, it is very
<br>> difficult to navigate with a remote.<br>><br>> Is ther any alternative out there? Preferably something I can control<br>> from my desktop? My windows box is not connected to my receiver via<br>> digital (it is analog) and I get a nasty ground hum. I would prefer
<br>> to use the mythbox and control it from a remote computer, even if it<br>> means not using mythmusic.<br><br>mp3act has a jukebox mode which will play on the local machine. I have it<br>installed on my Gentoo/MythTV box, and I have it streaming, but jukebox
<br>mode isn't working for me right now. No time to debug. Maybe later. :(<br><br>I also have gnump3d installed. gnump3d doesn't have a jukebox mode, but it<br>is capable of downsampling, which I don't believe mp3act can do.
<br><br>Seems to me like a web based solution would be best.<br><br>--<br>Jesse Guardiani<br>Programmer/Sys Admin<br><a href="mailto:jesse@wingnet.net">jesse@wingnet.net</a><br>_______________________________________________
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