Playing Media Over LAN

[Christo]

Im a total linux newbie and just want some help on media players....

I have a windows box, which I have managed to access through ubuntu 5.10
on my laptop

basically I want to be able to play music that is on the windows box in
linux on my laptop

which media player would you guys reccomend i use to do this?

i also want to be able to play .pls files that come from the internet

love the look of XMMS, will this do what I want?

[Dirk Roos]

Christo wrote:

> Im a total linux newbie and just want some help on media players....
>
> I have a windows box, which I have managed to access through ubuntu 5.10
> on my laptop
>
> basically I want to be able to play music that is on the windows box in
> linux on my laptop
>
> which media player would you guys reccomend i use to do this?
>
> i also want to be able to play .pls files that come from the internet
>
> love the look of XMMS, will this do what I want?

If you like it, why don't you try it? It won't hurt;-)

A while ago i used amaroK to access a windows-server. amaroK kept crashing
when accessing the samba-shares. So I moved the server to ubuntu.

--
Dirk Roos
SUSE Linux 10.0 - ubuntu 5.04

[Christo]

"Dirk Roos" <droos@ekonet.be> wrote in message
news:Vrndg.447267$lf6.11893803@phobos.telenet-ops.be...

> Christo wrote:
>

>> Im a total linux newbie and just want some help on media players....
>>
>> I have a windows box, which I have managed to access through ubuntu 5.10
>> on my laptop
>>
>> basically I want to be able to play music that is on the windows box in
>> linux on my laptop
>>
>> which media player would you guys reccomend i use to do this?
>>
>> i also want to be able to play .pls files that come from the internet
>>
>> love the look of XMMS, will this do what I want?

>
> If you like it, why don't you try it? It won't hurt;-)
>
> A while ago i used amaroK to access a windows-server. amaroK kept crashing
> when accessing the samba-shares. So I moved the server to ubuntu.
>
> --
> Dirk Roos
> SUSE Linux 10.0 - ubuntu 5.04

XMMS doesnt appear to work however rhythembox works cool, would love a
winamp style player to work over a network though, rhythembox is a bit
bulky.....

is there anyway to get XMMS to work over a network

TIA

Christo

[Chris]

On 2006-05-25, Christo <chris@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> Im a total linux newbie and just want some help on media players....
>
> I have a windows box, which I have managed to access through ubuntu 5.10
> on my laptop
>
> basically I want to be able to play music that is on the windows box in
> linux on my laptop
>
> which media player would you guys reccomend i use to do this?
>
> i also want to be able to play .pls files that come from the internet
>
> love the look of XMMS, will this do what I want?

I am new to linux also. But I have had luck with VLC over a
network. I believe it works in linux. The only bummer is
that it only plays one file at a time (no playlists). I have yet to
figure out how to play more than one.

Cheers,
Chris

[Wayne]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 01:34:27 +0000, Chris wrote:

>> love the look of XMMS, will this do what I want?

> I am new to linux also. But I have had luck with VLC over a network. I
> believe it works in linux. The only bummer is that it only plays one file
> at a time (no playlists). I have yet to figure out how to play more than
> one.

Umm, try the 'View' option on the main menu bar. first entry is 'Playlist'

:-)

Wayne
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