Wireless connecting to play music

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:31:44 -0700, Sam Albers wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I am having a little trouble figuring something out and I was just
> hoping that someone might point me in the right direction. I am sure
> that there is a tutorial somewhere on how to do this but I can't seem to
> find it.
> 
> Here is what I was hoping to do: I have an older machine that I am not
> using and I would like to use it as a wireless music box. That is, I
> would like to be able to be sitting on the couch with my main machine
> and be able to control my music wirelessly. So I am envisioning the
> older machine having all the music files on it and being able to somehow
> connect to that machine which presumably would be running Ubuntu. The
> older machine, connect wirelessly to my router, would be plugged into my
> stereo while the other machine would not (although also connected
> wireless to the router). Also, if possible I would like to be able to
> connect using not only my Ubuntu machine but other computers running
> different OSes (Mac, Windows, etc). Can anyone recommend a decent way to
> accomplish this?
> 
> I am running the newest version of Ubuntu on both machines right now.
> 
> Thanks in advance!

You could try MPD as a player, and something like gbemol as an interface. 
Both programs are available in the Ubuntu repositories.

"gbemol allows you to use MPD with a userfriendly interface. Features 
include an easy-to-use, tag-oriented library browser, a two mode playlist, 
cover art support (APIC tag only, for now), system tray icon docking, 
song, album and artist information.

Music Player Daemon is a server that allows remote access for playing 
audio files, streams and managing playlists. The daemon is controlled 
through a client which need not run on the same computer mpd runs on."

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