Nice web interface or music?

[Chris Hill]

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.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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