Music
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I'm finallly getting my music collection sorted.
What started this was buying a Roku/Pinnacle Soundbridge HomeMusic (£40).
First of all, I had ripped my collection a while ago to OGG, however the Soundbridge does _not_ support this natively - despite many requests. The tools I use will transcode to .wav on the fly, but not to .mp3 - and my wireless isn't quick enough to support sending WAVs so it buffers for 30seconds every few minutes. So I'm re-ripping to mp3.
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Overview
First of all we have the soundbridge itself. This talks using Zeroconf to a DAAP server (mt-daapd in my case). This can serve out any music file in addition to "smart playlists" which are basically preconfigured searches (e.g. "Rock music" or "Music from 1960's"). We can also point out other media players (e.g. the fabulous amarok) at the server too.
We then a streaming radio station using icecast(2). Finally we hook Amarok into icecast so that whatever amarok is playing is fed into icecast to play.
Soundbridge
Documented in my talk for HantsLUG about the Soundbridge
MT-daapd (firefly)
To get amarok to use the DAAP server see the amarok DAAP guide.
Sometimes the soundbridge would fail to see mt-daapd, I think this might be if wlan0 is not in promiscuous mode ("ifconfig wlan0 promisc").
To enable DAAP over the internet, allow TCP port 3689 in, but ensure you have a password set in mt-daapd first!
Icecast
Amarok
Firewalls and security
By default you can control the soundbridge over both HTTP (standard port) and telnet (port 4444). You might want to lock this down by ....
