MediaTomb, Playstation 3 and Last.fm
Saturday 27 December 2008 ◷ 01:56
And an iBook. What's it worth to loose some more cables in the room? The easy way was to get a piece of Airtunes hardware to just stream music from iTunes to an amp. But since I don't have my music stored as mp3 or some Apple friendly format, at some point iTunes refused to stream or share oggs. That makes Airtunes pretty worthless, and a solution should involve transcoding. On the hardware side my Sony Bravia is already hooked up to my amp, my Playstation is HDMI hooked up to my Sony Bravia and the Playstation is connected to my iBook via WiFi (Linksys OpenWRT). The hardware is there, only some open source software needed to fix things. That means installing MediaTomb on the iBook, configured to transcode the oggs to PCM streams the Playstation can understand. Some tuning with buffers and nice to get it to stream smoothly and it works. And as a bonus I've written a transcode perl script that sits between MediaTomb and ffmpeg and submits the scrobble to my last.fm profile when MediaTomb plays an ogg. And via the optical digital out on the Playstation I can record playlists on my MiniDisc recorder. Who needs optical out on an iBook?