From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 01:12:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E80B106564A for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0348FC19 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:12:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2O1DEWl079563; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:12:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090324011209.GC16759@thought.org> References: <20090322233056.GA41297@thought.org> <20090323191744.GA5405@thought.org> <20090323205027.GA41513@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090323215405.GA10111@thought.org> <20090323230142.3ec088b2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090323232936.GB16759@thought.org> <20090324004140.dc39e85f.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090324004140.dc39e85f.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Roland Smith , FreeBSD Mailing List , Wojciech Puchar Subject: Re: networked audio X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:12:19 -0000 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:41:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a > > wav123, an au123, &c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a > > flac123. .... i'll be [bleeped]. > > :-) > > > > ANyway, re xmms2, it's built (I had it but since there was no > > front end and since i really didn't want to spejnt days messing > > with it, I never used it. I've got gxmms2 working on my linux > > desktopk, but it only works locally. How do I use [gx]mms2 > > to go over the wire to the audio-server I'm building, show me the > > playlist here and play thru my better speakers? > > > > I had imagined something like: > > > > % xmms2 -r zen:/home/kline/Music/ > > > > where the -r would indicate "remote" ... > > Re xmms2 Miniprod malquoted operations. :-) > > Because I haven't installed xmms2 on my system, I'm not 100 percent > sure, but according to http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page > it seems that you have to run xmms2 on the box that holds your files > (server) and control the program's operations via the computer with > the better speakers (client) by means of an xmms2 client application. > > http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Using_the_application > > A daemonic concept. =^_^= > nEat that these guys have a wiki page! it just makes learning hte fine-grain details so much easier. I was just out downing a couple cups of coffee and did install the *xmms2* stuff on my to-be music server. I come back, read your mail, and now am browsing the xmms2 wiki pages. It'll take a couple hours to get the configuration done, but then, hey, i'm home free and clear:_) thankee, gary > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php