Not sure what the problem is. I play media off of network shares all the time, in fact most of the time since I keep everything on the server in the basement. Client machines can be Linux, Windows (XP, Vista, and 7 all live here)
I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do or exactly what the problem is. There are two approaches. One is some sort of streaming server (probably icecast2) that you connect your various clients to. The other approach is using something like mpd (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki). I don't personally use either approach so I can't really provide any guidance here. I usually pick the artists or albums that I want, I have never been really happy with any of the predictive/dynamic playlist technologies, I find I skip just as much as when I drop a bunch of tunes into a playlist and hit random. Hth, On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:43 AM, TekBudda <tekbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have started to move forward with some of my home projects & one of > them was to get over the frustration of having to copy files to a media > player to listen to somewhere else in the house. > > To that end I have installed Subsonic on my server (Windows 2003) for > the time being. I have created a new user & have added the music > folder. Voila life is good & I can listen to music thru a web browser > on a different computer in the house. > > But what I would like to do is listen through something like Clementine, > Amroak, VLC, etc. I just want to listen to randoms ongs with minimal > management of playlists, etc. Essentially I just want to click a song & > play it like I would if i was sitting at the location where the music is > located. As well, if I see song I like I would like to add it to my > media player. > > I have tried adding a network share but the players insist on local > files, so that is why I started looking at Subsonic. I have tried > adding links to network shares on my Kubuntu 10.10 laptop to windows > share on the server but i can't play the files. > > I am thinking that it is something to do with setting up a stream, but > up to this point I haven't been able to add one. I currently access > Subsonic at http://server:81. I was being prompted for vlc to open a > playlist everytime i clicked s ong & I eventually just let it do that & > was able to play a whole album. > > I am hoping I don't need to add all of the songs to a play list in order > to stream them to the devices in the house. I just want to be able to > choose a media player, click on a song & away I go. > > I know I haven't really provided much diagnostic information, as I am > not sure what would be pertinent. If anyone has questions, let me know,. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
