Control music playback through ssh

[Chosen Reject]

My file server also has my speakers hooked up to it, but it doesn't have a monitor hooked up to it usually. I'd like to be able to ssh into the machine and play music through it but that doesn't seem to be working. I followed the solution given here --> http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43889& but that hasn't helped. I've used XMMS, which just shuts down as soon as I start it with no error messages, and I've used mpg321 with the following error:

[wonka@reject ~]$ mpg321 Music/They\ Might\ Be\ Giants/Flood/02\ Birdhouse\ In\ Your\ Soul.mp3 
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title  : Birdhouse In Your Soul          Artist: They Might Be Giants          
Album  : Flood                           Year  : 1990
Comment:  0000058B 000005D4 0000300E 00  Genre : Alternative                   

Directory: Music/They Might Be Giants/Flood/
Playing MPEG stream from 02 Birdhouse In Your Soul.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
ALSA lib confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card ''
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such device
Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?)
[wonka@reject ~]$

When I actually have a monitor and keyboard attached to it and am working on it locally, I know XMMS works (I've never tried mpg321 locally), so I'm flustered.

Does anyone have any suggestions or is this even possible?

[jdeslip]

When you ssh, are you doing "ssh -X" instead of just "ssh"? I think this would in principle cause the sound to come out on the local machine not on the file-server (but I'd also believe it would crash).

When I installed mpg321 it also installed a dependency from fedora called libao - perhaps you are just missing this. Try simply doing "yum install libao" on your file server. I got mpg321 from the livna repository, by the way.

[Chosen Reject]

I've tried both ssh -X and ssh but it doesn't seem to work in either case. However, I found something much much cooler. MPD ftw. I run MPD on my fileserver and then use gmpc on whatever computer I want. Then my fileserver plays my music out of its own speakers. Awesome stuff and even better than I originally hoped or wanted.