So since pimp has a cheap shoutcast server thing, I decided to use that to play music while I'm at home.

Playing normal mp3s uses too much bandwidth to waste on my DSL connection (~20-30k/s with 128-160kbit mp3s). So, I decided to use lame as a middleman to down-encode the shoutcasted output from pimp. The following is a little script that uses netcat to connect to the shoutcasty thing aswell as act as a server elsewhere for the down-encoded mp3 data to be sent off.

#!/usr/local/bin/ksh

foo() {
	killall nc
	exit 1
}  

trap foo int 
nc -lp 8081 |&

echo "ICY 200 OK" >&p
echo >&p

nc whack 8080 | lame --mp3input -b 64 - - >&p

I probably don't need to use co-processes, but they're fun, so whatever. Run this script then run mplayer against whatever machine it's on. So what I do is, run the script, then mplayer:

whack(~) > ./projects/pimp/pimp &
whack(~) > ./mp3foo
... over on my laptop ...
nightfall(~) > mplayer http://whack:8081

Poof! Instant mp3 shenanigans. Instead of averaging 24K/s I average 7.5K/s while playing streamed mp3s - what's better is I can still control what song is being played throug pimp's telnet interface and I don't have to waste time downloading every individual song I want to listen to.

Furthermore, here's a nice oneliner to do inbound(download) bandwidth monitoring:

netstat -w 1 | perl -e 'while (<>) { next unless m/^\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+(\d+)/; \
	$b++; $a += $1; print "Total/Avg/Cur = $a / " . ($a / $b) . " / $1\n"; }'