A web app that provides slick music player control to an otherwise headless server.
I have speakers plugged into a zero-security bluetooth receiver. My media server sits right next to them. Playing music from the media server requires turning on the TV and streaming the media to my Roku.
A web app that I can run on the media server, plug the speakers directly into it, fuck the bluetooth receiver, and just control the server through a web app.
Should I do this on my #CodingTogether streams?
@savanni So something like this already *sort of* exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server) but it's also kinda crusty, more like the mid-2000s definition of "slick".
It would be nice to have something slicker, and that doesn't fall over on half the audio files :)
@joepie91 Realizing that the way i did this a few months ago... I was using dbus to order Rhythm box to do things. I'll need to find a headless audio player. Unless pulse/pipewaire/new hotness can do all the decoding...
@savanni I think you can just pipe ffmpeg straight into an audio device? Otherwise I believe there is a way to run VLC headless
@joepie91 Maybe so? I have not a clue. I haven't worked at this particular level in years.
Last time, though, gstreamer was very helpful.