[SOLVED] Play music via SSH

flowheat · 2009-02-16 00:01:25

I cannot imagine this is that hard of a problem, but I apparently cannot find the right combination of words to get what I need out of google or the forum search.

So I have a mac mini that I have an external hard drive connected to. This external hard drive holds my music collection. I connect to the mini via SSH. I just need a music player on my arch laptop that lets me play my music over the ssh connection.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by flowheat (2009-02-16 00:36:44)

SamC · 2009-02-16 00:03:40

You could try running MPD on the mac, or use sshfs to mount the folder and play it with any music player.

Xyne · 2009-02-16 00:19:14

What search terms have you tried?
There seems to be a lot of relevant pages that show up for "streaming over ssh".

flowheat · 2009-02-16 00:35:42

I wasn't using 'streaming' I was using things along the lines of 'play music over ssh' or 'ssh music player' and I was finding many items on setting up a server on arch to host my music but nothing for playing the music on a different server.

I tried to use mac ports to install mpd on my mac but that's failing miserably. So sshfs looks like the route i'm going to try. I'm pretty new to ssh too and this appears to be a super useful tool.

Thanks again.

area · 2009-02-16 02:00:50

you could use vlc http://www.videolan.org streaming capabilities. I'm not sure how much direct control you would have over playback but since you're already ssh'd into it i guess it wouldn't matter.

there is also icecast http://www.icecast.org/index.php or gnump3d, I have no experience with either and I'm not even sure they would work on mac.... but they exist!

please let us know how you solve this problem.. I'm sure there is plenty of interest.

anrxc · 2009-02-16 02:38:12

Additional suggestions are;
using edna: http://edna.sourceforge.net/
using a network sound server: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1676

Piping both trough SSH is a technicality (lookup ssh forwarding or ssh vpn's). If that is really what must be done?
Why would an additional open port be a problem? That's what you will get anyway with VLC, Icecast, mpd, edna... if it's filtered and you must go trough SSH then you also have your anwser. My personal suggestion is edna btw, great little script.

Last edited by anrxc (2009-02-16 02:50:26)

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[SOLVED] Play music via SSH

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