[mythtv-users] Controlling mythmusic from mythweb

[John Wilson]

>> While we wait for remote control in MythMusic, can anyone recommend a 
>> Linux web app for playing music locally?  I have searched all over, 
>> but all the web apps that I have seen that have a decent interface 
>> (f.ex. Andromeda) seem to be designed to stream audio to the web 
>> client instead of playing it on the server.  It seems a bit of a 
>> waste to stream music to my laptop when the machine they are hosted 
>> on is already connected to the home theatre amp :-)
>> Eggert
> Commandline: mplayer - or why not use myth?

>Well, personally I prefer a web interface over picking music with a 
>remote control.  I realize that I can ssh into the mythbox and run 
>mplayer, but I just find it a bit strange that with all the impressive 
>looking streaming web apps that seem to be out there, I can't find a 
>single one that has an option of sending the files to mplayer instead 
>of streaming them.

Well, I use mpd.  It's got a php client, a command line client, a curses client, etc...

http://www.musicpd.org/

~John