Ready for music? Listen to the icecast stream over ssh (client-side instructions) On the wireless laptop, install the pre-built mplayer package: $ sudo pkg_add -i mplayer Ambiguous: choose package for mplayer 0: 1: mplayer-1.0rc2p6 2: mplayer-1.0rc2p6-esd 3: mplayer-1.0rc2p6-no_x11 4: mplayer-1.0rc2p6-sdl Your choice: 1 ... Make an ssh connection to the mpd/icecast server: $ ssh -L 8000:localhost:8000 mike@musicserver In another (local) xterm, run: $ mplayer http://localhost:8000/mpd.ogg