Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, vlad wrote: >> hello, >> >> i´ve posted this issue some time ago, >> but this is still current (at least for me): >> i have a quite big music collection (about 50 GB). >> everytime i want to listen to music i have to browse through >> my music directory which consists of about 100 or more directories. >> this is quite annoying, takes much time and remote >> key pressing. however, the album-tree plugin is what i need (sorts >> artists alphabetically, etc), but it doesn't work with ogg files. >> mp3 files are correctly recognized and the meta-data is correctly >> read. all ogg files are collected in one NULL directory whithout >> any tags or information, all names are "NULL". >> since most of my music files are ogg files the >> album tree plugin is not useable for me. >> could possibly someone (please) expand this plugin to read out the >> meta-data of ogg/flac or other audio files? >> this would help a lot. >> >> thank you in advance, >> >> vlad >> >> ps: i´m using freevo 1.7.4 under archlinux > > vlad > I'm working (with will-code-for-food-uni-student) on the mpd plugin (which is > broken with 1.7.4) > we have mixed ogg and mp3 on another machine (enough to play for 23 days > straight, apparently) > on the other machine we use netjuke to search the system and make playlists > and have got these instructions now going to the mpd server on the freevo > machine. > I'm hoping that the freevo mpd client will integrate the rest of this into > freevo but can't tell if this will solve our common problem with the music. > I didn't find album-tree really easy to use and haven't used it on my new > install > > summary (current) > music player daemon running as server on freevo machine > music can be elsewhere on network > mpd client (anywhere on network) searches the lists and makes playlists > freevo box makes noise in loungeroom as requested > > (future) > freevo mpd client plays on request. > i have no idea yet what its search capabilities are or whether it will be > rated useful or hopeless.
There is also musicip (http://www.musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp) which looks like it does what you want. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
