Turning laptop with dead lcd into MP3 player...

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sluzbenik

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I'm trying to turn this old Acer (not that old, at least it has a Pentium M) with a dead screen into a media server/player hooked up to my hi-fi system.

Can anyone think of any software that would let me manipulate what it's playing without using Remote Desktop and directly logging in? What I'd really like to do is just turn it into a Squeezebox, since the screen is dead I have to interact with it remotely.
 
Well, I tried a couple of things, if anyone's interested.

Streaming with Shoutcast works fine, but the re-encoding of already encoded MP3s sounds terrible.I also played around with VNC as a streamer, but its web interface is too primitive.

So I just decided to use Remote Desktop and Media Monkey on the laptop, and it sounds a lot better. So I have to log in, but at least I don't lose quality through re-encoding. Now I just need a good USB sound card - looking at the M-Audio 202 or 404...
 
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