I decided to give mpd (music player demon) another go on my linux-pc. The configuration was a bit of fiddling (as often in Linux), but now that it works it does it's job very well (as often in Linux). The most interesting part is that there are clients for android-phones, which let you control the mpd, like stop,start, volume adjust, skip song, ... but also playlist-editing and some more things.
It would be rather nice if something like that could be achieved by using an android-phone and the Pandora. I'm thinking about a setup where you connect the Pandora to some large speakers on some private party (where you can trust the visitors in not stealing your Pandora or the SDCards) and sitting close to a campfire with your android-phone and handling song-requests of your guests or your own favorite songs - with the rest of the music-hardware standing further away.
The Pandora should be able to establish a WLAN-connection with the phone without further hardware, i.e. act as wlan-station, right?
Of course other setups are possible as well, where you carry the Pandora with you (as client, e.g. with "ncmpcpp") and connect some other hardware to the amplifier running as mpd-server. But for now using the Pandora as Wlan-station and player-server is the most interesting one for me. Note that I don't want to stream mp3s over the wlan, just send control-input/output.
So what's the situation on that topic? Would porting mpd be much of an effort? Are there other very similar solutions available already, for example through other already ported musicplayers?
Oh, and while I'm at it I will hijack my own thread and ask a somewhat related question:
Does it already work (software-wise) to connect the Pandora to car-soundsystems via bluetooth (more or less automatically when entering the car) and play the music (mp3s) stored on the Pandora's SD-card? Just like it is possible to do with smartphones. If so, what steps do i need to do? I never did that with a smartphone myself either, but know that it's not that complicated there.
It would be rather nice if something like that could be achieved by using an android-phone and the Pandora. I'm thinking about a setup where you connect the Pandora to some large speakers on some private party (where you can trust the visitors in not stealing your Pandora or the SDCards) and sitting close to a campfire with your android-phone and handling song-requests of your guests or your own favorite songs - with the rest of the music-hardware standing further away.
The Pandora should be able to establish a WLAN-connection with the phone without further hardware, i.e. act as wlan-station, right?
Of course other setups are possible as well, where you carry the Pandora with you (as client, e.g. with "ncmpcpp") and connect some other hardware to the amplifier running as mpd-server. But for now using the Pandora as Wlan-station and player-server is the most interesting one for me. Note that I don't want to stream mp3s over the wlan, just send control-input/output.
So what's the situation on that topic? Would porting mpd be much of an effort? Are there other very similar solutions available already, for example through other already ported musicplayers?
Oh, and while I'm at it I will hijack my own thread and ask a somewhat related question:
Does it already work (software-wise) to connect the Pandora to car-soundsystems via bluetooth (more or less automatically when entering the car) and play the music (mp3s) stored on the Pandora's SD-card? Just like it is possible to do with smartphones. If so, what steps do i need to do? I never did that with a smartphone myself either, but know that it's not that complicated there.
