How to use rhythmbox-client on LAN?
- by Kaustubh P
A few days ago I had asked this question, and according to one suggestion, used rhythmote. It is a web-interface to change songs on a rhythmbox playing on some PC. However, its not what I had thought of, and I stumbled upon documentation for rhythmbox-client. I tried a few ways of using it, but was unsuccessful. Let me show you a few ways of how I did it. The rhythmbox is running at address 192.168.1.4, lets call it jukebox.
Passing the address as a parameter
Hoping that I would be able to see and browse through songs on the jukebox
rhythmbox-client 192.168.1.4
But, I get this message
(rhythmbox-client:8370):
Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Did not receive
a reply. Possible causes include: the
remote application did not send a
reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was
broken.
(rhythmbox-client:8370):
Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Did not receive
a reply. Possible causes include: the
remote application did not send a
reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was
broken.
SSH
ssh -l jukebox 192.168.1.4
rhythmbox-client --print-playing
Which spat this at me:
(rhythmbox-client:9389): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
rhythmbox-client as root
gksudo rhythmbox-client 192.168.1.4
A rhythmbox client comes up, but with no music shown in the library. I am guessing this is running on my own computer.
Can anyon tell me how rhythmbox-client is to be run, and is it even correct of me to think that I can get a rhythmbox window showing the songs on the jukebox?
PS: There were a few other solutions mentioned, but I want to evaluate each and every one of them.
Thanks.
