[ubuntu-uk] MP3 player with shoutcast and web remote control support

[Rob Beard]

Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> 2009/9/19 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Not sure if anyone can help with this one...
>>
>> Basically my new phone has Wifi and it will play Shoutcast streams.  Now
>> although I can put music on the memory card, I'd rather not have a load
>> of songs duplicated on my server and phone.  What I would like to do
>> though is to stream songs on my server using Shoutcast or Icecast to my
>> phone.
>>
>> So I wondered if anyone knew of a terminal based MP3 player (maybe an
>> MP3 player daemon) that can send it's output directly to a
>> Shoutcast/Icecast streaming server and be controlled by a web page (I'm
>> thinking either a page on Apache to send commands to the daemon, or a
>> daemon with it's own built in web interface?).
>>
>> Just wondered if there was such a thing?
>>
>> I did find an application called SnackAmp which is TCL/TK based and
>> works on Linux or Windows but it appears that it has a GUI interface and
>> can't find the music, plus it needs a display to output to on Linux
>> (which isn't much good on my server as I don't have X installed).
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Ampache should do what you're after.
>
> $ sudo aptitude install ampache
>
>   
Cool thanks I'll have a look.  I did find MPD which I have got working 
on the laptop but it only seems to support OGG streaming which my phone 
won't support :-(

Rob