2014-06-12, 06:04
(2014-06-12, 02:33)lunkhound Wrote:(2014-06-12, 00:22)nickr Wrote:(2014-06-11, 02:29)lunkhound Wrote: I'm trying to use the FTV with XBMC as a headless music streamer. I want to use the optical audio output into an older (non-HDMI) receiver. Only I've hit a snag...IMHO this is a very strange setup. XBMC is not designed to be a headless music player. Why not use logitechmediaserver and install squeeze player (android software) on the FTV?
Or buy a squeezebox, which is actually designed to do what you want :-)
Well my music library lives on a Solaris box (a ZFS server) and logitech media server doesn't work on that OS. So that's why I don't use squeezebox.
Besides, I've been using XBMC as a headless music streamer for years, albeit running on a PC. It reads the music files over the network via SMB, no special server software needed. It works fine headless as long as you've got a smartphone or tablet to control it from.
+1 on that. Using something like constellation on an ipad to control and play music remotely work perfectly on a windows install. I wish openelec and AFT would work headless.