Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2017-03-05 22:55:56) > [mray] >> On 05.03.2017 22:02, James Valleroy wrote: >>> I've been testing mpd a bit. I'm able to control it remotely with >>> gmpc and stream to vlc (over http). It should be simple to put >>> together a Plinth module for it. I'm wondering how the music files >>> should be uploaded though (upload form in Plinth?). >>> >> >> Ideally this would tie in to general file synchronization, probably >> expecting music from the default folder under /music. >> >> ...although being able to mount network drives would be awesome, too.
MPD is mainly about feeding hosted music to a *local* audio device on the server - it can also stream the hosted files, but not elegantly (the recipient needs to be written into the configuration file). > The feature I am after is being able to visit a web page showing my > music collection and playing the music using my browser. ...whereas Ampache is mainly about streaming to the *client* accessing the service, but optionally can act as a web interface to MPD. > I am only aware of ampache and groovebasin in Debian that is able to > do so, and while groovebasin work fairly well, it refuses to work in a > sub-url (see https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/issues/495), and > thus is hard to get working with FreedomBox and pagekite (another of > my requirements). > > I hope ampache is without such limitation, but have not tested it yet. > > Using a non-web client (gmpc) to enable streaing to another non-web > client (vlc) is not going to work for my use case - playing music from > home at work and when travelling. > > And sure, mounting network drives using plinth would be great, but not a > requirement as I am able to fix that by logging in via ssh. There's also Mopidy which some may find interesting. I am a devoted MPD user (every day for many years), but understand that some have different needs. Beware of the memory and CPU consumption too, not only features, when comparing these tools: In my (brief, somewhat dated) testing of Groovebasin I found it to be consuming quite a lot of resources compared to mpd. Would be sad to provide a single tool that covers both streaming and local-playing needs but does the latter far inferior to mpd (it is not adequate for a service to emulate the MPD _protocol_). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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