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How to remotely control your music server?

This forum has greatly helped me decide how to handle my very large music/media collection. 

The biggest issue I have is how to play my whole-house music from inside/outside the house using remote computers.  I'd like a simple GUI to select album art to queue music-- not from the client, but from the library server that connects to my amps.

I have a terabyte of music/media in my basement, which plays music throughout my home.  I had been using Xlobby to run on client computers in the house, which use "xnet" to send play commands from the xlobby server.  Xlobby is in limbo now though, and it's darn complex to maintain.  But the wife loved the simple graphic interface to pick her music, and guests found it easy to use.

I hoped J River Media Center could do this, but for some reason it can only stream library music to the server-- clients can't *control* the server (which is what I want).  Remote Desktop is too slow, but in a pinch can be used to crudely queue music.

Any suggestions how to solve my problem?  I've found very little out there that can do this.

Thanks!

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #1 –
Assuming you are using a local network I'm surprised you say remote desktop is too slow.  That's what I use to connect to my media playing box and I find it plenty fast even when showing covers in foobar2000.  Are you sure you are referring to the built in remote desktop of XP pro and not some third party remote access program?  They are almost all much slower than true remote desktop.

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #2 –
I have GigE and have tried both XP native RDP as well as VNC etc.-- it's too slow.  Can't compare to Itunes coverflow, JRMC, Xlobby, etc.  So no, looking for a true client/server solution...

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: starmanj on
I have GigE and have tried both XP native RDP as well as VNC etc.-- it's too slow.  Can't compare to Itunes coverflow, JRMC, Xlobby, etc.  So no, looking for a true client/server solution...


I use Gig/E with Microsoft XP Remote Desktop Connection with no real response time problems. For example right now I'm controlling JRiver media center on a second XP machine from my workstation with Jriver serving music off a third XP machine. All machines are 3 GHz machines or faster with sufficient memory, fast systems disks and 750 Gig or terabyte Western Digital storage disks.

I'm pretty sure you have an undetected  performance bottleneck somewhere.

Phil

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #4 –
I'm too very interested about this subject.

I recently found this: Logitech Squeezebox Duet. Could you achieve your goal with this? I really would like to hear any comments about the product (pros/cons). I too would like to select my music from somekind of cover art display.. I don't know if Squeezebox Duet can do it.. rather small display on the remote control, so maybe it doesn't have this feature..?

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #5 –
I don't know what OS your music server is running, but MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for this.
Dan
 

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Akkurat on
I'm too very interested about this subject.

I recently found this: Logitech Squeezebox Duet. Could you achieve your goal with this? I really would like to hear any comments about the product (pros/cons). I too would like to select my music from somekind of cover art display.. I don't know if Squeezebox Duet can do it.. rather small display on the remote control, so maybe it doesn't have this feature..?

By the picture it looks like it supports cover art. Check out the Slimdevices Forums.

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: m_l on
Quote from: Akkurat on
I too would like to select my music from somekind of cover art display.. I don't know if Squeezebox Duet can do it.. rather small display on the remote control, so maybe it doesn't have this feature..?

By the picture it looks like it supports cover art. Check out the Slimdevices Forums.

I read that the LCD is generated in the pictures. I really meant that I would like to navigate and choose albums to play from a view with only cover art images (maybe with small album name captions). That's how I currently play my music with Winamp + Album List for Winamp plugin. I glanced thru all the official specs and the forum briefly but I didn't find any info on this subject. But like I said, the LCD is quite small so a view with only cover art images is maybe not so useful/usable.

I read a review by CNET and I'm more convinced that this is the shit! Open source software, plugins, firmware updates + so much more. I want one. And I want it now.  Or Sonos Digital Music System but that costs more.

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Akkurat on
I read that the LCD is generated in the pictures. I really meant that I would like to navigate and choose albums to play from a view with only cover art images (maybe with small album name captions). That's how I currently play my music with Winamp + Album List for Winamp plugin. I glanced thru all the official specs and the forum briefly but I didn't find any info on this subject. But like I said, the LCD is quite small so a view with only cover art images is maybe not so useful/usable.

I read a review by CNET and I'm more convinced that this is the shit! Open source software, plugins, firmware updates + so much more. I want one. And I want it now.  Or Sonos Digital Music System but that costs more.

I have a Squeezebox 3 and can navigate, play directly from the cover art. Using a very old  Pocket PC wirelessly. The SB3  is networked with cables not wireless.

CHECK THIS OUT

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #9 –
Quote from: danbee on
I don't know what OS your music server is running, but MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for this.

I have come to use this solution quite a bit recently, it is really the best solution for centralizing music playing and it has quite a few interesting clients for different platforms with some really nice features.

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #10 –
Quote from: m_l on
I have a Squeezebox 3 and can navigate, play directly from the cover art. Using a very old  Pocket PC wirelessly. The SB3  is networked with cables not wireless.

CHECK THIS OUT


I'm very tempted to get an iTouch for my Squeezbox as it looks like a great controller with this skin running on the server:
http://penguinlovesmusic.de/?page_id=7

- Audio Spyder

How to remotely control your music server?

Reply #11 –
Quote from: Audio_Spyder on
Quote from: m_l on

I have a Squeezebox 3 and can navigate, play directly from the cover art. Using a very old  Pocket PC wirelessly. The SB3  is networked with cables not wireless.

CHECK THIS OUT


I'm very tempted to get an iTouch for my Squeezbox as it looks like a great controller with this skin running on the server:
http://penguinlovesmusic.de/?page_id=7

- Audio Spyder

Very nice! Thank You
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