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Re: [ECS] Controling another computer's software Scott Reston Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:54:05 -0400

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i currently run ECS and Winamp on separate machines. i take advantage of the fact that
i've got web servers running on most of my machines and use a 
web browser to build and run playlists from remote machines (and from ECS). i've got
a little info about the script i wrote at: 
http://therestons.com/info/mp3list. that version is out of date, but if you're a programmer,
you can probably pick up my lead and build on it. you'll need a perl 
interpreter to run my scripts.

another possibility: if the program you are using on your remote machine can accept
command-line arguments, you can execute it using a piece of code that 
a friend of mine wrote. you'll need to have a java runtime on each machine for this
one. you can find info at: http://www.mindspring.com/~mither/execute/

i use his script extensively with ECS. basically, you run the server part on the remote
machine that will be receiving commands... when you want to kick off a 
command, you run the client piece with the arguments that you want to execute remotely.
i use this in conjunction with David Kindred's WACTRL.EXE to 
control winamp.


scott reston
scott@theRestons.com
http://theRestons.com/scott/

 
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:50:39 -0700, Dan Carrington wrote:

>Does WinAmp do jukebox from hard drive?  I am looking into a mpg3 style
>jukebox.  I rip my CD's and encode them into mpg3 for disk space.  The software
>then lets me setup any number or cross referenced playlists as to who is home
>and what they want to listen to or what time of day it is.  Trying some software
>out on my non-ecs computer, I had it "skip" playback as the computer did other
>things.  Hence the separate computer dedicated for the process.  Still cheaper
>than a couple of 300 disc boxes to hold all the cd's.

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