Invoking media player on server by clicking mp3 link on client

[nanko]

I dont know if this question is valid for this forum. is there a way to open a server application by invoking it through a web client?

basically i have lots of mp3s on my server that are accessed through the network on client pcs. what i am wondering is there should be a way to click the mp3 link on my client web_page that opens and plays it on media player on the server station. the intent is not to play on client pc but on the server where mp3s reside.

anyone has idea or code on how to achieve this?

[Cander]

that doesnt make any sense. Why would you want to play the mp3 on the server where no body can here it?

[HollywoodKY]

Actually, I was wanting to do this same thing. Here's why:

My whole house is wired for ethernet with a wireless connection also. My main PC resides in the office where it is connected to a stereo to play back audio on the "big speakers". I then wired two speakers off this stereo and placed them outside on my deck. This allows whatever MP3's are being played on the office computer to be played through the stereo and thus the deck speakers. I got tired of running back in the house to load a playlist everytime I wanted to hear a song. My solution was to develop a "remote control" type app that allowed me to take my wireless connected laptop outside and control what was being played on the office computer.

I ended up just using remote desktop, but I still would like to develop a cool looking app that did this for me. Good question Nanko... I hate you for re-planting this seed in my mind...

HWOODKY

[Lifer]

Hello everyone.

Nanko was kind enough to come here and post for me, since he's more of the VB programmer, I'm simply a dabbler.

His question is really mine, so I'll rephrase it for everyone.

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I would like for a client to be able to click a hyperlink from a list of available .mp3 files and have the server play it. (or possibly add to playlist if already playing)
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To answer the questions already posted:

Q: "How would the client hear the MP3 then..."
A: Whether or not the client hears the .mp3 is not part of the question. (If the client needs to hear the .mp3, a simple web page generated from the directory would suffice; mime types would take care of the rest.)


Q: "The question just doesnt [sic] make sense."
A: I hope I clarified it by re-phrasing it.



If there are further questions, please let me know, and I'll be happy to answer them.

Thank you, everyone, for your patience with my poor English skills!

[Lifer]

HollywoodKY,

I would use the remote desktop, but I have two problems with that route...

1) The server is Win2K, not XP. (XP does not recognize my Mylex SCSI controller, and IBM has no intentions of making it work)

2) Not all client PCs are Windows. Some are Mac and some are Linux.





So, I'm stuck with my original problem. 8)

[Cander]

No. It still doesnt make sense. Sorry, but you have not explained what you are trying to accomplish with this. What function is playing an mp3 on a server going to give you? Why?

[Cander]

Originally posted by HollywoodKY
Actually, I was wanting to do this same thing. Here's why:

My whole house is wired for ethernet with a wireless connection also. My main PC resides in the office where it is connected to a stereo to play back audio on the "big speakers". I then wired two speakers off this stereo and placed them outside on my deck. This allows whatever MP3's are being played on the office computer to be played through the stereo and thus the deck speakers. I got tired of running back in the house to load a playlist everytime I wanted to hear a song. My solution was to develop a "remote control" type app that allowed me to take my wireless connected laptop outside and control what was being played on the office computer.

I ended up just using remote desktop, but I still would like to develop a cool looking app that did this for me. Good question Nanko... I hate you for re-planting this seed in my mind...

HWOODKY

That is not playing mp3's on a web server. You could have easily written an app that changes or creates playlists.

[Lifer]

"You could have easily written an app that changes or creates playlists."


Ok then. Maybe that's what I want. As long as those playlists get created on the computer that has the .mp3s on it, which is also the same computer serving the web page list of .mp3s, and that same machine then plays the playlist.

Maybe you don't call it a web server these days, I'm pretty old and things change; but 'back in my day' a computer that served up web pages was a web server.

Again, I appologize if I'm not asking my question properly.

[Lifer]

"What function is playing an mp3 on a server going to give you? Why?"

If it is really that important to you that I explain why I want what I want, then I'll do my best...


I want a computer (win2K) to store mp3 files and play them when asked by a client computer via web page.


Right now, I have the computer storing the mp3s, and it also is serving web pages with lists of the files available, but this does no good, since clicking on them from a client PC simply plays the mp3 at the client computer, which is pointless.

[Lifer]

HollywoodKY

Got our answer!



http://www.browseamp.com


It's exactly what we're looking for, someone else has already figured out how to do it for us AND set it up for free download!