On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:51:43PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Have you looked at slimp3?
I have now. I wonder if the slimp3 device works the same way as a client running xmms. I suspect it does. Here's a short summary for the archives. [I'm new to these programs, so don't trust my comments...] For all its problems[1], I like NetJuke better. The interface for searching for songs and creating playlists is better. I like the idea behind Slimp3, though. They have both have a central database for selecting play lists/songs. The difference is that NetJuke downloads a .m3u list to the browser which passes the file to xmms as the play list. Then xmms fetches the songs. Works well for playing songs on a local machine, but not for remotely controlling the player. Slimp3, on the other hand, truly streams the content to xmms and maintains the playlists on a central server. On clients you start up something like xmms and point it to the streaming sever. Clients are based by IP number (can be assigned names, of course). So, all the clients are managed via the central server -- you access a web page, select an active client and view its playlist and see what it's currently playing. Nice. The down side is that since the Slimp3 server is streaming (and the client buffering), the interface has a big delay. Click "skip" in the web interface and it can be 30 seconds before the song changes! No back button. I really like the central playlist management idea. I guess what would be good is a separate control channel for managing xmms. Maintain the playlist on a central server, but instead of streaming just control xmms' playlist remotely. I know there's some tools for controlling xmms, but is there anything to control xmms that can be used over the network and is bi-directional to keep the playlist on xmms and the central server in sync? [1] NetJuke 1.0-rc1: Seems to have some SQL problems (I'm using Postgresql 7.4.1) selecting some lists: Mar 1 21:35:28 bumby postgres[17797]: [17-1] ERROR: column "ge.name" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function Mar 1 21:35:42 bumby postgres[17797]: [18-1] ERROR: for SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
