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traviskleckner
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Has anyone had any luck controlling a network music player?
I've currently got control via winamp but at times when the server gets busy I get some significant loss in audio quality (aka, it sputters like CRAZY).
I'm wondering if a solution might be to have an external player like a squeezebox. More than one of these would also allow me to have alternate sources for music in rooms upstairs.
I looked at the Logitech Squeezebox Duet and Sonos, and both look nice, but I still want forward/rev/pause functionality from in-room keypads. Ideally I'd like to be able to switch between playlists as well, but that's not 100% required.
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TonyNo
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Sputters, huh? You must be doing a lot or be running an older system. I only see that type of behavior on my 2.2GHz Athlon when my anti-virus software kicks in. I will not stop anyone from buying nifty hardware, though! ;)
I thought someone here was using a Squeezebox or two, but a search did not show that.
Seems like you could do whatever you wanted, as the keypads could just fire triggers to control things via HTTP requests to each Squeezebox (they have web servers that allow control over everything). You can even send text to the Squeezeboxes that shows up on its display (think CallerID, news, weather).
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Thanks. I started looking into SqueezeCenter and it looks promising. Seems as thought there is HTML and command line control.
Yep, WinAmp will "skip". My server at home is also used as a web and database server, and has a couple sire monitoring tasks that run every 5 minutes. That said, sometimes it's looking at short periods (2-3 seconds) of 100% cpu usage. Having the music cut out for 3 seconds a few times an hour cuts down the WAF enormously.
Add to that I'd like to have alternate play lists for the bedroom (ya know, we don't need Barry White in the kitchen!) and the nursery (baby likes her background white noise). That Squeezebox Duet (or even Sonos, but, $$$) looks nice, but who wants to have to get a remote for every room. Since those rooms all have keypads already, I'd like to have control that way.
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