Trey’s Blog|brain spillage!

SlimServer is a nicely developed (Perl) piece of software that was designed for use with their own device called the SqueezeBox. I don’t own a SqueezeBox, but you can get some good use out of this server. If you want to get full functionality, it is recommended you download their ‘emulator’ called SoftSqueeze, which I’m guessing is the very source code that is use on their device.

Another option is to only use this as your streaming server and connect to it via WinAMP or iTunes. This application is very similar to ShoutCast. I haven’t configured a ShoutCast server in about 3 years, but I’m sure it is as easy as this server was to configure. For those who never have configured ShoutCast, you basically setup your playlist and hit Play, using your nicely designed Web Interface. After that you server is broadcasting your playlist to the port specified to the entire network for anyone to connect to. This is fundamental Internet Radio, and you have just setup your own radio station. To listen to your music, point your music software of choice (XMMS, WinAMP, iTunes, etc) to http://[computername]:9000/stream.mp3 and shazaam, tunes!

This server does seem to handle most types of music files and converts them to mp3 on the fly using perl libraries.

For More Information:
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_features.html