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Networking Speakers

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:32 am
by shiznatix
At my office there are a bunch of computers in a small room. What I would like to do is setup speakers and like winamp or windows media player on one computer and then be able to control this from every computer in the office.

I searched google and all the options are with a million wires and whatnot which is not going to work so I was wondering if there was some crafty way I might be able to use PHP or something to have a server on the computer with the speakers that controls everything or if there might be another way to do it.

We are all running windows vista business if that helps.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:11 am
by feyd

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:25 am
by shiznatix
So it is possible but this requires an Airport Express which I don't have the money for just now.

Here is kinda an idea of mine that may or may not be possible:

-Find some sort of command line program for linux that is easy to use, something that will be like: audioplayer -s "the_path_to_song_to_play.mp3"
-Have everyone upload their music to the server then they can just go to some small PHP app that is like 'play this song' and when you click it, PHP runs that command which then stops the song that is playing and starts the song that was clicked.

It would be best if there was some fancy way to make playlists and turn on randomization but this is all based on the command line music player that I do not know of yet. Also, maybe there would be a way to be like 'play this song from my hard drive' then the server will find the song on their computer and stream it to the server as it plays it.

Does anyone know of such a powerful command line program that will run on Fedora?

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:52 pm
by php3ch0
May I suggest a "music server" and vnc

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:24 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I'd suggest network accessible music library and some creative usage of media player classic's web interface with custom GETs and POSTs (I've always wanted to do this!) You could easily make a full-on audio / video server, but I'll leave the details to you ;-)