[ale] suggestions for setting up a home mp3 jukebox system with a Web Interface

[tejus at vijedi.net]

I have a similar setup, but use an entirely different approach.  Instead of  
a web interface, I just use my favorite music player of the time with VNC.  
This works out pretty nicely since it makes it easier to co-ordinate with 
the other folks with laptops who want to change the music selection at the 
same time (surprisingly often even though there are two of us).  Plus this 
way I can use the same programs to play music on the media box as I do on my 
laptop. 

The drawbacks are you have to install a good chunk of X and (of course) VNC 
on the server and install vnc on every client machine.  Not a problem for me 
since all this stuff was installed anyway.  Also, any visualizations that 
the media player does will likely kill VNC (not really a problem if you 
stick with XMMS or rhythmbox). 

My media box is relatively beefy now, but I had this setup work very well on 
a PII-233 with 64M of RAM and a 2gig disk (music files were on a network 
share). 

Again, not exactly what you asked for, but worth looking into if you have a 
regular media player you love. 

Tejus 

Van Loggins writes: 

> Let me try this posting again. I had forgotten to disable my signature file
> last time. 
> 
> You will note that I removed the offending part of the original message. 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads up Geoffrey. 
> 
> Van 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Van Loggins <vanloggins at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 7, 2005 11:15 AM
> Subject: suggestions for setting up a home mp3 jukebox system with a Web
> Interface
> To: ale at ale.org 
> 
> Hi guys, 
> 
> It's been a while since I posted but I wanted to see if anyone has any
> suggestions on doing this. 
> 
> Here is my machine specs 
> 
> Compaq Ipaq Workstation (one of the ones which uses the notebook optical
> drives) 
> 
> Pentium III 500 MHz
> 512 Megs Ram
> 120 GB hard drive Partitioned with 20 gigs allocated for the / partition, 2
> Gigs allocated for Swap, and the remaining amount partitioned as a Fat32
> partition mounted as /dos
> Integrated Intel 810 video card
> Integrated AC97 Sound Card 
> 
> The system has built-in speakers so I don't have to hook up any speakers, I
> may use a patch cable and hook it to my home stereo later on. 
> 
> 
> I am very open on which Linux Distribution I run on this system, I basically
> want to set the system up as a headless Unit and I want to be able to
> control it though a web interface so I can go to any other computer on my
> home network and logt into it from a web browser and adjust the playlist,
> start the playback or stop the playback,etc. 
> 
> I am currently looking at using amarok with a mysql backend and the
> amarok-web package which is available from sourceforge 
> 
> Are there any prepackaged distros available which will make this easier to
> set up? 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Van Loggins