[wplug] xmms

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Mar 6 21:33:41 EST 2003


On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:59:53PM -0500, Brian Medley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:13:58PM -0500, logan wrote:
> > I'm going home for spring break, but it's not long enough for me
> > to haul my computer home, so I was messing arround with
> > X-forwarding on my ssh sessions, and got that to work fine, but
> > when I start xmms to play files on my server, the sound comes out
> > the server's speakers. How do I forward sound as well?
> 
> I think EsounD will do this: http://www.tux.org/%7Ericdude/EsounD.html

Another approach would be to just run xmms on the client and export
your music from the server via NFS, AFS, icecast, etc.  For security,
you can set up a VPN over SSH (see
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ppp-ssh/index.html), and only export to
clients on the VPN.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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