Hi Carsten,
I was looking into making Freevo be a client for mpd using a python library, available on the mpd website, made be an mpd author. It's called py-libmpdclient . I'm not so good with python, so I'm trying to create a client by converting the existing fxmms one. I haven't got that far: pause,stop, current status and seek are only implemented, but not tested. I am also away in Northern Ireland for three weeks so can't code anymore as no freevo box. However I can still discuss plans for this.
My initial impressions of MPD are that it creates a music database of all media you tell it. Then when you tell it to play a file, you must reference it from the database, not the actual file path. So I'm confused as to how to get freevo to tell it what file path to play. Try yourself playing with mpc, to add a file to the playlist, you must have it already in the database. Running two databases of MPD's and freevo cache's seems silly, but perhaps if this is the only way, we could do it by making mpd catalog all the directories listed as audio in local_conf.py .
Can anyone make mpd play just a filename not in the database it creates? If so, how did you manage that?
It still looks a great idea, maybe a couple of emails with the mpd guys could help us out here,
Nick
Carsten Breuer wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
There is a command line client for mpd (Music Player Daemon) called mpc. Now if a plugin was made for freevo to use mpc, then freevo could effectively be remote controlled through mpd.
Im writing currently a windows client for MPD. My main target is Windows CE, because i want to use a handheld
to control the server. But this also runs on a normal Windows Client.
There is a Windows Client allready available, but ir is reallllllly bad. I don't want to use it.
The best way would be if freevo acts as an mpd client, so that it controls the mpd
over locahost. With this, you can create a playlist with the handheld, any modify it on the
TV with freevo. I think, taht would be smart. In my current configuration, freevo is
running against mpd.
Let me know if you do further work here.
Best Regards,
Carsten
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