Flutterby™! : Music Player Daemon

Just in case my browser crashes before tomorrow: One of the spoils of the layoff was a Via Eden board, which will let me take the fanless case that currently houses my server and finally turn it into that living room media center. So I sat down to whip up a little HTTP daemon that'd look on NFS mounts for media files and let you manipulate play lists and start and stop an mpg123 or ogg123 process, really looking forward to it 'cause that would also give me some current C++ code to pass around with my résumé, but figured I'd give a quick search, first.

Looks like Music Player Daemon got there first. Runs as a daemon on the server, clients for all the operating systems we run here in the house, I'll give step-by-step instructions as soon as I get this thing built (probably tomorrow) but I think at this point it'll be easy.

Damn, now I need something else in to write in C++. The snippet manager is currently reading my mail spool and my images directory, and is in Perl, and I'm thinking that this'd be a good chance to really get a good solid grasp of templates and STL by converting it over to C++, and yet...

The other thing the Via Eden board would be good for is control of assorted animation on the model railroad modules. These .9 degree step NEMA 23 mount stepper motors I got are honkin' massive overkill, but... "Don't touch the turn table when you grab that locomotive, it'll take your fingers off!" Maybe I'll write a web interface to control that.