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streamiumd is a self-contained server that you can use on your linux machine to serve mp3 files to your Philips Streamium device(s). Tested only on the MC-i250, but the MC-i200 should work as well as some others.
streamiumd is based on Nathan Peterson's excellent hacking and code.
streamiumd is free software!
News:
2007-09-23
After using and enhancing streamiumd in my home for a couple of years, and being nagged by my own conscience for about a year now, I've finally decided to make streamiumd the first thing that I've "given back" to the Open Source community.
Installation:
To install, simply download the file from the above link, make sure it's chmod 700 (at least), and run it. Minimally "streamiumd /path/to/your/mp3s". You may also want to put it in your /etc/rc.local or equivalent, so it starts up whenever the linux machine starts.
Requirements:
- A Linux Machine containing at least one mp3 file (or an m3u file with streaming internet radio urls) on one of its mounted filesystems. As far as I know, streamiumd doesn't work on Windows.
- Perl
- MP3::Info module from CPAN (or from your command line,
perl -MCPAN -e "install MP3::Info"
)
Advanced Tricks / Examples:
Start the server, make it show up as "Living Room", and serve mp3s from /home/dave/mp3s:
./streamiumd -d "Living Room" /home/dave/mp3s
Start the server, make it show up as "Basement", serve mp3s from /home/shared/mp3s, and stream mp3s on port 8081 (note: separate port #s are NOT required if running on multiple servers, but you probably want to change the names)
./streamiumd -d "Basement" -p 8081 /home/shared/mp3s
The same, but watch it in action (don't daemonize.. useful for testing)
./streamiumd -d "Basement" -p 8081 /home/shared/mp3s -n
Set up some internet radio stations in an m3u playlist:
First, create a file with contents like those in this example file
* Note: I'm including a visual of the file here, but word wrap will probably mess things up..
Your_Radio_File.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,HMB - Information (D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - Future Synthpop - Finest selection of futurepop and synthpop!!)
http://160.79.128.40:7234
|
..as long as the urls begin with "http:", streamiumd will tell your Streamium devices the url. The "-1" above is the song length.. I suggest leaving it at -1. The "HMB - Information (D I G I T A "... is the description that will show up when browsing with the Streamium. I suggest changing it to something you find memorable. Also note that the Streamium device will probably truncate the description to 32 characters.
I pulled the url above from a ".pls" file that I got from http://www.di.fm. Hope I'm not violating any copyright laws or anything...
