Play my music over the net

[HydeTheDarkerSide]

I have SC installed on my Windows HomeServer together with my Music library in the Music share.

Can I play that music over the net, and if so how?

I've openned port 9000 on my router and can open SC remotely, but the only connected devices it recognises are the physical players in my house. So I really need it to stream my music library to the remote machine I logged in from.

Can this be done?

Cheers
Hyde.

[CatBus]

This should cover it, or at least provide a good starting point:

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/RemoteStreaming

[HydeTheDarkerSide]

Thanks for the pointer. I'll give that a more thorough read tonight.

My fear is that my music library is entirely FLAC. I was hoping that maybe Vista WMP11 could be passed a url for either the individual track or better still a playlist. Maybe I'll find that solution from your link.

Cheers
Hyde.

[bernt]

Hamachi (LogMeIn)
Moose
Squeezeslave

Hamachi on server and client.

Moose and Squeezeslave on client

Point out Squeeslave in Moose and start Moose with path\moose.exe /squeezeslave.

[HydeTheDarkerSide]

Sorry, I should have said before. I'd like to achieve this without installing any additional software than might be found on a basic Windows machine with internet access.

I'd like to play the music either at work over headphones (where I can't install any additional software), or using RealPlayer on my Nokia N95 mobile phone.

Cheers
Hyde.

[maggior]

I've not used RealPlayer, so I don't know if it will play a URL. Microsoft Media Player will.

Regaring sending FLAC over the 'net - once you connect to slim server over the 'net, a player will be created in the server. You can modify its settings to bitrate limit with mp3. You will have to have the LAME binary installed on the server for this to work.

Too bad you can't run squeezeslave on the client side - it works really well and makes things easier since you control playback from only one place - the web UI of squeezecenter.

[HydeTheDarkerSide]

Thanks

Also found this thread which has me very nearly where I want to be. Just need to check my LAME installation as I'm getting errors that this isn't installed.

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39363

[edit]Ah didn't have LAME installed at all!

All now working on my N95 at least ) Just need to establish why I can't connect at work. I just get timeouts which I have a hunch is down to port 9000 being blocked perhaps? [/edit]

[lemmy999]

Can you run Softsqueeze as an applet? This works for me with Slimserver 6.5.4 (I can't install software either at work), but with Squeezecenter 7.2 the Softsqueeze as an applet won't load for some reason.

Also, for Softsqueeze you need port 9000 and 3483 open on the end that is hosting the music.

[HydeTheDarkerSide]

Nope can't get SC as an applet to run on the N95

[MeSue]

Could Squeezeslave be run from a flash drive?