XO-1 as music front-end?
XO-1 as music front-end?
Latest mt-daapd transcodes. Sweet. No more ripping flac to mp3 just for stupid iTunes -- ndw 21 Dec 2008
Perfect; now that I have a new big disk, I can take our iTunes libraries, which have gotten sorta mixed up, and merge them into one big honkin networked library. mt-daapd Ubuntu quickstart worked fine.
But... how to access the songs from the living room? The roku soundbridge and stuff look nice, but I can't justify the cost. Likewise airport express.
It just hit me: my xo-1 has wifi and a headphone jack.
update: it works! I used mpd with output to icecast2. The documentation could use some diagrams, but once I got the picture, it was reasonably straightforward:
- mpd indexes the music, takes commands over a network
protocol from various clients such as pympd (linux) and
theramin (mac), queues songs, and decodes and streams them
- icecast takes streams and buffers and multiplexes them to multiple clients
- mplayer on the XO-1 listens to the stream and plays it thru the headphone jack
- powered speakers in the living room play the results
For bonus points: I'd like to control it from my sidekick (or g1). That should be just a matter of setting up a web-based mpd client and exposing it thru the firewall.
My related work:
-
hAudio for microformats mixtapes, in progress
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Related work by others:
- Using
your Android phone as a remote for controlling music
playback
Rick Turoczy | January 8, 2009