Network MP3 player?

torne · Post by **torne** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:53 am

Are any of the MP3 players for the DC capable of playing Shoutcast/Icecast streams, or playing mp3 files accessed through http/ftp? I have a 'network jukebox' and it would be nice to use my DC as a front end.

If no player can do this right now, are there any projects which would like my help? =)

Torne

doragasu · Post by **doragasu** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:48 pm

There is a network version of To Eleven MP3 player with network support, but you need a BBA to use it. This version isn't capable of playing MP3 from CD's, so I haven't tested it yet (I have no BBA). You can download it from http://to-11.sourceforge.net/.

sonick · Post by **sonick** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 5:06 pm

wow, thast f'n cool! If only i had a BBA :P THat would be so awesome lol

ShadowofBob · Post by **ShadowofBob** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 5:51 pm

I tired to get it to work, but I had truble browsing to find my Directory with MP3's. Maybe it works better if you are running linux since I was using WinXP. Another cool prog that actually fully supports browsing network is PCSXDC. I can load up PSX .bin's over my network and never have to burn a CD to test games.

torne · Post by **torne** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:54 am

That sounds pretty cool and I'll try it once my BBA arrives (hopefully soon). What I was really after, however, is support for standard protocols a la Winamp - playing MP3s through HTTP. My jukebox is a web server using mod_mp3 on Apache, which is a funky module that streams mp3s/oggs to you (support for searching, browsing, autogenerating playlists from directories..etc). Using all of that would need, well, a whole web browser, so that's a bit much, but supporting download via HTTP would be a great start, and supporting HTTP shoutcast would let me listen to di.fm without booting my PC =)

I'd be interested in helping to develop this kind of functionality, even. I haven't programmed much on the DC yet but am capable on other platforms. If To Eleven can get to the point where it can support HTTP, then I can certainly hack mod_mp3 in order to produce output suited for parsing by it, thus alleviating the need to understand HTML. That would rock.

I'll have to email the author and ask him about it. =)

Torne

gnateye · Post by **gnateye** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 3:36 pm

bump!

im hoping for the same thing. any help i can get or give let me know

i would be nice to do without the bba, i bring my ddc with me when i travel and would love to listen to my netradio stream while i am in a hotel room across the country.

next level would be to incorperate visualizations ala winamp (soundjam on the mac) so it play pretty pictures while playing music