[Tfug] music/mp3 player daemon

[r35157anc3]

If you like what you're doing now, then I would do the following:

ssh -f localhost <command you use to execute>

It will start a new shell and detach itself from it, so if you close 
your xterm, it'll stay running on the server like it were a daemon.

&Leo();

Claude Rubinson wrote:

>I'm wondering if anybody is aware of an audio player app that runs as
>a daemon?  Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree.  I'll provide a bit
>of background and how I'm thinking about resolving the problem.
>
>I typically use command-line instruments for playing music (generally
>mp3s but, if possible, I'm looking for a solution that supports
>multiple formats).  In an xterm, I'll execute splay or the play
>frontend to SoX against a list of audio files and throw it into the
>background.  No muss, no fuss. 
>
>Well, at least most of the type.  Every so often, I won't be thinking
>about it, and I'll close the xterm that's running the playing job.
>Whoops!  There goes the music.  Or, I'll want to kill the job but I've
>forgotten which xterm it's running in.  Yeah, I can always kill the
>process but I shouldn't have to.
>
>So it occurs to me that the solution is an audio player daemon that
>runs in the background.  It would just sit there, awaiting a list of
>files to play.  When it receives them, it plays them.  When I want to
>stop the music, I send a 'stop' command and it's done.  Perhaps it
>even possesses pause and track skipping functionality (but that might
>just spoil me).  Truly no muss, no fuss.
>
>It would be fairly simple to whip up such an app, so I'm thinking
>that---given the thousands of audio players out there---something must
>already exist.  But my searching Google and Freshmeat haven't turned
>anything up.  I may have just missed it.  Anybody aware of such an
>app?  (There are a bunch of HTTP audio servers.  But that's not what
>I'm looking for.  I just want a local daemon.)
>
>Or maybe somebody has another solution?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Claude
>
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