[CoLoCo] Home music setup

[Dave Price]

I second the vote for mpd - I really like phpmp as a front end ...
very light weight, and you can control the player and playlists from
any web browser with network access to the player - looks sort of like
a test version of iTunes.

aloha,
dave

On 10/3/07, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Easiest thing to do with the best result...
>
> Combine one of these:
> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1137451822026&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=2202640536B12
>
> With that, some clever networking, and using mpd (a linux console music
> program daemon) and a frontend for it (such as Sonata) you can pretty much
> create an audio stream that is sent to your stereo.  Sonata is a graphical
> interface for mpd that works over networks, so you could use a laptop to
> connect to your tower to change the music if you wanted, or just change it
> locally through the tower.  This way you have the option of choosing your
> playlist via multiple methods.
>
> Cheers,
> David