Two’s enough for now.

2004/07/06 23:01:00

After some more consideration and looking at things I have gone with the server playing mp3s. Using the ?SoundBlaster card and about 10m of phono lead gives a very bassey sound but not bad. Next on the list is some silent computers but that is a whole other entry.

You are all shouting out now in unison now I know. What are you using to play the music John? Well I will put you out of your misery. It’s a small app called mserv. After a little research it applied to the UNIX in me. How was it to setup? your almost deafening cry comes now I am sure. Well let me take you through it.

#apt-get install mserv -y
… put in my mp3 directory into the setup question

We are off. That’s it. If you ever wonder why I use Debian then the above install and setup goes a long way to explain it. Then comes the fun part and perhaps those of a WIMPy disposition should look away now. To drive it you telnet to port 4444 on the host. Then you get greeted by the following

Trying 100.100.100.1…
Connected to somehost.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
200 Mserv 0.35 (c) James Ponder 1999-2003 - Type: USER
.

After a couple of guesses I got the help screen listing all the command strings then I was off. It’s super geeky interface just entertains me. Typing volume +5, asearch reed and queue 158 to turn up the volume by 5% then find all the albums with reed in and add album 158 to the queue. I am sure that in time I will move on for the novlty but at the moment I am lapping it up.

Next I am looking at some security, I mean who uses telnet now? Then there is mention of a web interface!

PS. According to the Steve at the little pink shop there is Small tourist wave on the high tide today in Croyde. Bloody tourists!

NP: Rolf Harris Nick Teen & Al K. Hall 3:45

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