On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:42:27 +0200 Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank You for the tip. I looked at mpd also (only on web page). It > have probably good posibility to control it via command line. But what > about xosd support? (Which I mention in my previous post.) I do not > see any info on page about it. mpd (and xmms2) is just a server that is responsible for music playback, functionality such as xosd notification can be provided by clients, one such example is here[1]. Perhaps there are more. > What bothers me also, is that it has not plugin design like > xmms. Support for plugins is very good because lot of people can write > plugins for lot of things. This is why people do not want to switch > from xmms because thanks to plugins it have so many features that > currently no player is able to overcome it. That is true, but if you split the media player functionality between server and client, server doesn't need many plugins - it only needs to support as many media types as possible. Many xmms plugins I saw are frontend-related. This can be handled by MPD clients. One of main clients, gmpc, recently added plugin support, and already plugins for album covers or song lyrics are available. > Also I read that it is not possible to play file without addind it to > mpd's database.(?) It seems to be clumsy. This is mainly because mpd is designed to run remotely, i.e. not on your desktop - clients connect via TCP, so they have no idea about the filesystem on box where mpd runs. There are plans to allow this exact functionality via URIs in format: "file://". > Can it play streams from internet? Maybe I should install it and look > at it more closely. Yes, and what's more, the development version (release candidates too) is also able to act as an icecast source, thus mpd+icecast2 can act as a streaming server. I'm usually listening to music streamed from my home box via an openvpn tunnel at work. :) Also, mpd has gapless output by default, iirc. 1. http://www.musicpd.org/forum/index.php?topic=1189 -- Andrej -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
