webbrowser controlled music player?

[reven]

im looking to control music playback on my HTPC via a webbrowser.

im not really fussed on what app i have to use, itunes, wmp, winamp.

but i want a good interface (all web2.0, and ajax, something that is easy to use) and easy to install.

i need to control music playback from various computers and have it played on my htpc which is connected to my sound system.

i thought it would be easy and lots of little asp.net/whatever apps out there but after an hour or so of hunting i havent found anything that is any good.

so anyone got any recommendations?

[pcostanza]

Firefox has FoxyTunes. Would that work for you?

[psycik]

Squeezecenter.....

[reven]

squeezecenter looks good, but when the software squeeze player is running all audio from any other app is blocked.

i need to have it running on my htpc 24/7 and work alongside gbpvr. so i can just turn on my receiver and play music through it via another computer (i have a imac in the lounge i want to control it through, or control it through my iphone)

[psycik]

you can just stream it and then use web api to control it....but it's notwhere near as clean as runnin media files directly

[reven]

i dont want to stream it, i want to play the file on the server, and just control playback on the remote browser.

[psycik]

yeah I know, that's the only problem with this scheme.

Um, winamp offers a remote browser, I assume itunes does as well

[reven]

the only one i found for winamp that seemed usable, was ajaxamp, but i couldnt connect to that one (not even via localhost), i think the webserver it uses isnt very good.

[stustunz]

just loaded ajax its sweet
change the server address to the ip of pc running winamp

just make sure you enter the address like this 192.168.1.xxx:5151/ in your web browser

either that or you router is doing something crazy

you have probably already moved on or have tried thes things but thought id share anyway

[reven]

nah i couldnt even getting it working on localhost with the firewall turned off.

not sure what was going on, would be easier to debug if it was using IIS or a decent webserver.

i still havent got a setup i can use that well, the squeeze server client i got still kills audio from any other windows app when its running (well a lot of the time it does, so need to turn on tv and use mouse to set it up whenever i want to listen to music, so not an ideal solution).

i may have to write my own asp.net website to control wmp (shouldnt be hard, just dont have the time)