Streaming music from external server via Ethernet

How about a plug-in to let the Empeg stream music from an external data source via Ethernet (like the Rio Receiver or Turtle Beach's Audiotron) instead of just the hard disk?

I don't have all my MP3's on my Empeg (they won't fit), but it seems like it should be pretty easy to get it to play music streamed from my Desktop music share using its audio outputs, either via the front panel UI or remote, or even via Displayserver / a web interface. How easy would it be to port the Receiver software over to the Empeg as an add-on?

Hi.

How easy would it be to port the Receiver software over to the Empeg as an add-on?

Hmm, might be pretty easy, the empeg guys always emphasize on the fact that all the software they did builds from the very same code base. So besides the user interfacing problem, it might be just some defines in the makefile or something like that. The user interface probably is a bigger problem though.

cu,
sven

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)

The receiver executable actually runs fine on the empeg; I've tried it. smu is right though, you will miss the lower half of the display. The top half contains song info and the lower half the time elapsed, so you would lose that. I can't remember if i tried the receiver remote, but I'm sure the front-buttons and rio/empeg remotes do not work in any way with the receiver software. I used the kernel ir-hack to test the menu functionality and select songs.

Frank van Gestel

I already a similar post on the BBS and the answer wasnt the same ...


Outcast Compliant

Empeg II - 10 Gb - Red Fascia - 750 Songs -

- I Will Strike From the Grey -

Empeg demonstrated an empeg serving a RioReceiver at the User Meet earlier this year, so I imagine doing the opposite should be straightforward.

Paul.

Paul Haigh, Reg. 4120
(mk1) 6GB, Blue, 00254
(mk2) 12GB, Red, 00357

To bring this topic back ... what would be involved in getting the empeg to stream shoutcast stations? If possible

It could be done in the kernel. You create a FID per shoutcast stream that you want to listen to. Now in the kernel you have code that intercepts the file open and read calls. So when the player tries to play your special FID the kernel code goes off and finds the shoutcast stream, does some "mangling" on it and then streams it in as the player requests data from the disk.

The kernel code will have probably have to lie to the player about certain things to convince it that the MP3 is very long and it will probably have to "pad", feeding the player some silence, while it finds the stream.

That would be the way to make it work seamlessly, but there would be a lot of problems to solve to make it work. Alternatively you just write a specific app to stream and decode (which would be able to use the tools out there already to do these things) and bind it to the HiJack menu.