Hi, I have a challange for you all.

I'll soon buy a laptop - my first one - and I don't want wires at all. I mostly don't want to plug my speakers each time in my laptop sound card.

Here's what will be my setup:

- A laptop
- On that laptop, if possible, I would like to run Amarok to CONTROL AND MANAGE my music library (not just play some networked playlist)
- An old pc that will be serving wirelessly with nfs my music files and running the actual mysql database of the music collection.
- A device (If I find one) that will receive by wifi my music stream
- Two speakers (and a sub ?) connected to that device.

Right now, I only own that good old p3-500, I will buy everything else.

I did search the web since that kind of setup becomes more and more popular, but everything I find is some devices that can receive daap served collection. So, you have to control music through that device, but I want to use Amarok on my laptop !

Any idea ?

Am I clear ? Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks a lot

I long for almost exactly the same setup as you! Here is what I HAVE:
- an old desktop (2.4GHz Pentium IV) that contains my music
- a laptop
- a Nokia770
- a Squeezebox
-two speakers and an amp
Currently I don't run Amarok since the SB has its own music serving program (called Slimserver) and doesn't support daap nor upnp. The simple remote that comes with the SB works surprisingly well and Slimserver has a web-interface too with plugins for  lyrics, artist info, etc.., but it is damn slow and Amarok offers a better interface. So what is missing is the connection between Slimserver and Amarok, which will have to be done by someone from the user base. With that in place my setup would be to run Amarok and the collection database all on my old desktop and stream the music to the SB and use NX or VNC to control everything from a remote device, be it my laptop or the smaller Nokia770.
Are you perhaps a programmer?

EDIT: the way to go is probably in the the phonon nmm direction... (for Amarok 2 of course)

It is currently possible to have amarok use a mysql database stored on a server. Check the amarok wiki's mysql page for setting it up. The main thing you need to make sure of, is that mysqld on the server is allowing remote connections. Once you have this set up, it's a simple matter to play music wirelessly.

Buy a Palm on eBay and wirelessly rock that **** baby!

http://giantdisc.org/

(some screens of my setup...)

[img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/1.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/2.png[/img]
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[img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/5.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/6.png[/img]
[img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/7.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/8.png[/img]
[img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/9.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/10.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/11.png[/img] [img]http://www.dachboden-wg.de/ftp/pics/fish/palm/12.png[/img]

Or stream your music to wherever you want...

http://jinzora.com/

Or go MPD and NCMPC!

http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/

Amarok + Networking? Nope, there are better solutions...

For networked audio, check out PulseAudio:  http://www.pulseaudio.org/

It can be used with the xine engine.

There's also about 0 advantage to having the mysql server on the desktop.

But yea, check out pulseaudio.

Thank you all.

Well, yes, I have thought of using a squeezebox or mpd+whateverfrontend, but like tirabosco, I really really really like Amarok. So I find all gui and web frontends unintuitive or featureless. giantdisc is kinda cool though. And that nx thing, well maybe, but it must be slow, no? As for Pulse audio, I'll take a look to it, and try to figure out what it does... (I use Linux, but i'm not that techie )

Amarok as a frontend for a music server, that would be the thing! I guess I will have to wait some time for that kind of feature....

If you have other ideas, maybe it will fit my (demanding) needs. hehe
Until then, I'll try your suggestions. Thanks again

Nx is quite fast even over a wireless network, I even used normal ssh-forwarding to my Nokia770 because it doesn't have an Nx client and it was fast enough too. In the end I ended up with VNC because it was the only way to have Amrok not terminated on connection loss. I didn't mention it in my previous post, but there is already an Amarok script that interacts with slimserver (one way though), see my third post here for its problems.
http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/t ... 096.0.html
I will definetely look into what it would take to write a phonon backend that talks with Slimserver, but since I am a very poor programmer I cannot promise anything.

Bye, tirabosco.