I noticed, last night, that I had to first select a random mp3 to play off the 'empeg' menu in order to access the 'shoutcast' menu without it crashing. Once I did that it worked fine.

http://www.mock.com/receiver/server/

The empeg won't list itself as a client in the client list. This is due to it not advertising it's MAC address to the server. I consider this a bug.

Greg

AHA!

I should state that it's not a problem with the empeg per se, rather it's a bug in rioplay.

Greg

Gotcha

Counting the minutes to go home and check it further.

Does the real Rio Receiver allow mp3s to be pushed to it from the server? Or is it only controllable from its console?

The client software that comes with the Rio Receiver only supports pulling mp3s and playlist from the server. It doesn't do pushing at all.

Dangit...that is what I am really looking for...a way to push external mp3s to the empeg and have it play them...

You could use RioPlay to play a ShoutCast stream and then "play" MP3s into the stream on the server.

That is a terrific point...

"My initial goals for this software were to simply support streaming music in addition to music served by my computer. " --The RioPlay Home Page

So I'd say it's definitly possible. I'm not sure if creating a shoutcast stream is as simple as an output plugin in winamp, but it might be.

I personally want a windows sound driver that outputs to the empeg over the network. I've been toying with this idea for a while but I don't have any idea how to write windows drivers. If shoutcast/rioplay is easy enough, I might try that out though.

Matthew

Shoutcast needs a server, client, and broadcaster.

You can install a shoutcast server on either windows or linux machines. Then you need the broadcaster, which is simply a dsp plugin for winamp.

This will work, and accomplish what we want, but I am still searching for a simpler 'Windows push to Empeg' method.

I have used this setup before and really like how it works. I just didn't like having a cpu tower by my entertainment center

Roomjuice

This setup uses mpg123 and php

Hi Greg, I've been thinking about buying an mp3/internet receiver box to stream my audio files from my computer to my home stereo. I had an epiphany and thought that I could stream audio to the empeg unit. I found this thread !!!! You guys are way ahead of me by two years. (You guys are my Heroes) My Question to you is -- what would it take for me to do it. I'm just an average windows user who doesn't have too much experience with linux or programming in general. I own two empeg units and successfully installed the hijack software. I'm not afraid to try. Is this project still alive and is it possible for me to do it ???? I have a few internet radio stations I like to listen to and my home system is far superior to my computer setup. My current setup is to use microsoft media encoder as the audio server and use my Ipaq pocketpc as the client and run the audio thru the headphone jack to my receiver. I was thinking it would be way cooler to use my empeg to do the same. Any thoughts or help would be very much appreciated !!!!!

Best Regards,
Markc.

This project has more or less stalled, but the software is still functional. I was successfully streaming music to my empeg from another computer in my house using the Dell Rio Receiver Server software (still also available through the empeg guys, I think). There's no automatic startup of the RioPlay application, but you can drop it on to your empeg, telnet in one time and turn it on via serial port or telnet.

I don't remember much about it at this point. My main goal was to use RioPlay to get Flac and OGG working and now that there's "supported" software from the Rio guys to do this, I've let this project be as it is.

I recommend giving this RioPlay software a whirl (I think the link to it is in an earlier post) and if you run into problems, just post here and I'll see what I can remember ;-)

g