Re: [SLUG] LAN

From: Mike Branda (realraccoon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 22:03:55 EDT


On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:51 -0400, Mike Branda wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 18:14 -0500, michael hast wrote:
> > Mike Branda wrote:

> > >My wife's uncle has a entertainment center component that has an
> > >ethernet jack on it. He has all his mp3 music files stored on his Unix
> > >box upstairs. This unit has pause/play and track buttons that stream
> > >media from that Unix box. It also reads the mp3 id tags and displays
> > >artist/track/title info on it's display.
> > >
> > >
> > I would also like to build a home-theater computer in the long-term
> > plans. I would want to utilize video/audio recording, storage and
> > playback as well as multi-channel surround coming from a Linux box.
> >
>
> The particular piece I was referring to is:
>
> http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp
>
> It has a web based management page that allows any computer in the house
> to login and remotely change tracks and such. Unfortunately, the uncle
> says they are no longer in production on this unit but there are others
> out there.

OOOh.....here's one that is currently on the market, has conventional
ethernet and 802.11g and the software is written in perl!!

http://slimdevices.com/

Mike Branda Jr.

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