How about MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) along with MythMusic (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythMusic)? You'll need a DAAP client if you want to share iTunes playlists. I haven't tried MythTV in a while and I'm not sure how good its OpenBSD support is, but it would make a fun project.
Cheers, don > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark B. > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:25 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: audio player > > Hi, > > I'm curious if anyone here has cobbled together a box that: > > - plugs into ethernet > > - plugs into stereo > > - plays music on stereo from iTunes library on home subnet > > - has gui that you can read from 15 feet away, allows you to > navigate the iTunes library, and that you can control with an > infrared remote (an old TV remote?) > > I've got an old Toshiba laptop with a IDE-to-CF drive, an IR port, enough > CPU and RAM, and a sound card that I hope is good enough. > > How hard would this be to pull together on OpenBSD? Has anybody > done something similar? > > Thanks, > > m > > P.S. Even more fun: uvideo + motion detection software, and control the volume > by swinging your arms. ;) Kids would love it until the speakers blew out.
