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UkDkDe

Member

Registered: 2009-05-08

Posts: 47

Solved: mplayer + ssh to play remotely stored music files on a netbook

This stumped me for a while; sorry if it is trivial for everybody else.

Setup: my music is stored on my desktop (192.168.2.101)
I wanted a simple way to play the files on my netbook (so the sound comes from the netbook speakers)

Solution - install mplayer and ssh. In a terminal on the netbook issue the command:

ssh user@192.168.2.101 "cat music.mp3" | mplayer -

note the "-" at the end. Login with User's password when prompted. mplayer will play through the netbook speakers. Can replace music.mp3 with a directory structure eg. /music/foo/bar/*.mp3

This is different from the usual set-up where the sound is played back through the desktop speakers (eg:
ssh -X -luser 192.168.2.101, then login as user and run, for example, quodlibet on the desktop through an X screen)

ralfonso

New Member

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 2

Re: Solved: mplayer + ssh to play remotely stored music files on a netbook

I usually just set up NFS for stuff like this, but check out SSH-FS if you're looking for a nice temporary solution.

Awebb

The Singularity

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 2,812

Re: Solved: mplayer + ssh to play remotely stored music files on a netbook

Your solution is more than unconventional. Everybody - including me, myself and I - would have told you what ralfonso said: Mount a remote folder using nfs or samba... but catting an mp3 like that is far from beeing trivial. You just expanded the horizon of yet another linux noob

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