Misc Notes Other ways to access your music VLC is also a nice icecast client (and is available for Windows and Mac). The client-side of this can be set up using VLC + Putty. On *nix (OpenBSD), there is an MPD GUI called sonata (pkg_add sonata). In addition to -L 8000:localhost:8000 you can specify -L 6600:localhost:6600 to control mpd from the "client" as well (using something like sonata). Or use mpc/ncmpc through the SSH connection. I have also used a PHP-based mpd client called Pitchfork, which can be found at http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Client:Pitchfork