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A dash of mplayer.

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Thinking about getting a stereo  for the office area, but really did not want to spend any money if I could use an old pc.Love to play free open source royalty free music.  If you think about it, the footprint of a stereo is like a pc but without the monitor. Maybe I could just use an old Linux box to get the job one. Then I thought would it be nice if I could lt the pc stereo stand alone and then access it from a remote machine.  Something linux can do very easily using the ssh environment. Installed a switch and ran the cables from the desk top to the music server. You could also do this via wifi, but that can be a security issue. Once you have everything set up, you will want to move your music files and then organize your music in some way before starting the shell command. so  $ ssh oeorgan1 $ sudo apt-get install mplayer Execute the shell command to play all the sonegs in the subdirectories from the main subdirectory. Note: if you know how to...

Watch video as text.

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To view videos as text try: (You may have to install the caca-utilities) $ mplayer -vo caca videoname.ext A 1997 Linux Terminal Tech Demo (ASCII Code) You can get it by typing this in the terminal: sudo apt-get install bb You can also watch the Starwars video with a real telnet connection. $  telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl You can also save the telnet session with ttyrec (you may need to install ttyrec or compile from source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttyrec/ , if your distro does not have it included) for later playback. To record $ ttyrec starwars $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl  <ctrl>d To playback. $ ttyplay starwars.