How to use MOC with Slimserver

Submitted by tinia on Wed, 2006-01-18 20:50

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Hi,

MOC is listed as nice player client for Slimserver. I wonder how I should start MOC to be slimserver client ?

Also can I run it completely in background without any gui - just be controlled from slimserver ?

Can I redirect its output to specific alsa device (hw:0,1, hw:0,2, etc...) ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Rob.

daper

Wed, 2006-01-18 21:27

I don't know SlimServer, sorry.

You can run MOC without the GUI using for example `mocp -a some files` and then controll it with mocp --play, mocp --next, etc.

To use a specyfic alsa device, use AlsaDevice in the config file.

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Damian Pietras - MOC developer

tinia

Thu, 2006-01-19 06:24

Hi,

thanks for answer. MOC is listed on slimserver page as currently best available client/player...

wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginPlayers

Anyone familiar with MOC and Slimserver? Slimserver is interesting server that can beside controlling players also sync them playing same stream...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Rob.

murray

Mon, 2006-04-17 07:53

If your MOC is built with network support you can start it with the URL of SlimServer's MP3 stream as follows ...

# mocp http://servername:9000/stream.mp3

If you are testing this on the same machine as slimserver, then replace "severname with "localhost".

Once it has established a connection you can control the stream from the SlimServer web browser page (under "players"). This is similar to using XMMS as a client player via a network connection.

You can also enter a URL (as above) from the MOC user interface via the '^U' keystroke.

You can run MOC on the SlimServer stream as a MOC "server" process by doing the following:
# mocp -S URL && mocp -p