Apple has a very slick tool, called "Remote.app" that allows you to control music playback on a PC running iTunes, see.
It lets you quickly select and queue songs for playback, and adjust the volume among other things. What's the best linux-compatible alternative? I'm not married to a particular music player on my PC – Banshee, Rhythmbox, whatever, I'm open.
My ideal vision is laying on the couch queuing up songs without having to turn on a monitor. Wow.. putting it like that makes me feel lazy.
Anyway…VNC is cumbersome…surely there's a better way?
Best Answer
You can do it with mpd.
You have to set up the daemon such that it allows ssh connection (basically comment the line
bind to adress: 127.0.0.1in the config file/etc/mpd/), then it will play in the background. You can then control it from any client (i.e. from any device which can connect to your PC) there is a list there:http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients
Some of them are particuliarly designed for Iphone. Some are php clients also, which can be fun.
This is what I'm using at home and it works perfectly!