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Playing songs remotely
Authored by: verence on May 13, '03 07:42:06PM

In the case that you can't set up VNC on the computer or you just want to have a command line interface to songs, you can simply use one of the command line media players (mpg123, mplayer).

IE - specifically for MP3's, you could download mpg123 using fink or some other method, then simply copy the file to an easily accessible location (make sure to change it +executable (ie, chmod u+x mpg123)) and then run it by /location/to/file/mpg123 /location/of/mp3toplay

If the computer you're running that on has apple events enabled, you could probably even turn up the volume using some other script. Of course, if it has apple events enabled you wouldn't need to necessarily use the command line script; you could just use the syntax mentioned in another hint.



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Playing songs remotely
Authored by: foobar104 on May 14, '03 01:20:35PM

I think you might be missing the point just a little bit. I'm sure that a lot of people would like to be able to start up iTunes remotely so they can connect to it over Rendezvous and stream their music libraries.



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Playing songs remotely
Authored by: verence on May 14, '03 01:53:02PM

Well, actually, I didn't miss the point. I thought to myself - 'wow. cool. that's a cool way to turn on sharing.'

But I also felt like sharing this little piece of info - it certainly doesn't merit its own hint, but it's the type of thing people might look for for a long time before coming up with the answer.



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