audio server??

[AutoC]

Hello Everyone,

I wish to install an audio server for my lab.Can someone help me get started?..I dont really have an idea of how to go through with it.I'm good at linux though

~Auto

[sideways]

I once installed MPD to serve music audio to lan pcs, it worked very well

http://www.musicpd.org/

[AutoC]

could you tell me how to go about doing it?

[sideways]

Originally Posted by AutoC

could you tell me how to go about doing it?

for mp3 & ogg-vorbis playback

su -
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install subversion
yum install libmad-devel libvorbis-devel
svn co https://svn.musicpd.org/mpd/trunk mpd
cd mpd
./autogen.sh
make
make install

Then start the music server by running 'mpd mpd.conf', you'll need to create an mpd.conf, there's an example mpd.conf that you can copy in doc/mpdconf.example, just change the music_directory location to point to the appropriate place for your music and other audio files.

Once it's running the client machines can connect using a vast number of mpd clients, eg

yum install sonata

You just specify the ip address of the mpd server in the sonata client



EDIT

the default port is 6600, you will have to open this on the firewall using system-config-firewall

[sideways]

you can try 'yum install mpd' rather than the complex method I posted, but I'm not sure if that will resolve dependencies correctly and set up sufficient audio codecs.

[AutoC]

ok..thanks..will try that

[AutoC]

the mpd.conf file has options like db_file,log_file audio output etc. i dont understand them...should i just uncomment them all?

[sideways]

Try first without uncommenting the optional settings, the defaults might be fine. (You may just want to uncomment the port setting to ensure you have the right port set)

[sideways]

hmm, it doesn't work with defaults on my F8.

You need to create some directories

mkdir -p ~/.mpd/playlists
mkdir ~/music

(make ~/music a symbolic link to your actual music directory if necessary)

Then you can enable alsa audio output by uncommenting the audio_output lines for alsa

Then create the database and restart mpd

mpd --create-db mpd.conf
mpd mpd.conf

Then test locally by running sonata and pointing at localhost