On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Music Listening:
>
> For music, I use Amarok on my machine at work and it is probably the best
> music player I have come across. It quite happily syncs with my filesystem
> layout (artist, album, tracks directory layout with cover.jpg) but
> provides a database with play by type etc. I really want the music
> playback to have some of those features.
Because my son and I have actually experimented with producing a solution to
this problem, I'd like to explain two of the problems we came across. You may
have some other sorts of solutions which might work better.
The first problem is keeping Freevo usable with a remote control. Making a
playlist with up, down, enter and back keys is slow and tedious. We all know
it.
The next was finding a low-resource solution compatible with plugins. Somebody
else had looked at mpd, we didn't look for any other solutions.
So our result was to produce another mpd plugin for Freevo, which did more of
what I wanted, and did what one other wanted - which was to control the
lounge room hi-fi from elsewhere in the house.
If you have the processing power, current solutions for you include Amarok
+AmarokMPC + MPD + Freevo
I use both a pympc on the Freevo machine and an MPD pluign for netjuke on the
machine that has the music store.
So if you can think of some other concepts I can deal with the
will_code_for_food_student, to see if we can make something better.
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