<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Geoff B</b> <<a href="mailto:geoffbon@gmail.com">geoffbon@gmail.com</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 5/2/06, Brad Benson wrote:<br>> On 5/2/06, Geoff B wrote:<br>> > This is slightly OT, but you might want to consider a Squeezebox, it<br>> > solves this beautifully. Open source software that runs on Linux /
<br>> > Windows / Mac, and sound quality as good as whatever format you throw<br>> > at it. I've used one for over a year now, it's fantastic.<br>><br>> Or, better yet, just install slimserver on your backend (or wherever your
<br>> music library lives) and use slimp3slave, xmms, etc, etc to play back the<br>> music streamed by slimserver. No point in buying a Squeezebox just to play<br>> music when you've already got a perfectly good mythfrontend connected to
<br>> your TV or stereo.<br>><br>Indeed - this is what I do at work and works well. And if you're<br>happy controlling the stream with a PC (or anything else that will run<br>a web browser), then you're golden. I just can't seem to get my
<br>significant other to do this though, whereas she took to the<br>Squeezebox like a duck to soup.</blockquote><div><br>Is it possible to use slimserver to play the music out of the mythbox? I just installed it, but it looks like it will strem the music to my remote computer, whereas I want to use the remote computer to control the mythbox and play the music from there.
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