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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:42:27 +0200 |
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Robert Cernansky <hslists2@××××××.sk> wrote: |
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> Thank You for the tip. I looked at mpd also (only on web page). It |
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> have probably good posibility to control it via command line. But what |
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> about xosd support? (Which I mention in my previous post.) I do not |
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> see any info on page about it. |
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mpd (and xmms2) is just a server that is responsible for music playback, |
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functionality such as xosd notification can be provided by clients, one |
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such example is here[1]. Perhaps there are more. |
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> What bothers me also, is that it has not plugin design like |
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> xmms. Support for plugins is very good because lot of people can write |
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> plugins for lot of things. This is why people do not want to switch |
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> from xmms because thanks to plugins it have so many features that |
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> currently no player is able to overcome it. |
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That is true, but if you split the media player functionality between |
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server and client, server doesn't need many plugins - it only needs to |
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support as many media types as possible. |
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Many xmms plugins I saw are frontend-related. This can be handled by |
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MPD clients. One of main clients, gmpc, recently added plugin support, |
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and already plugins for album covers or song lyrics are available. |
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> Also I read that it is not possible to play file without addind it to |
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> mpd's database.(?) It seems to be clumsy. |
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This is mainly because mpd is designed to run remotely, i.e. not on |
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your desktop - clients connect via TCP, so they have no idea about the |
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filesystem on box where mpd runs. |
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There are plans to allow this exact functionality via URIs in |
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format: "file://". |
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> Can it play streams from internet? Maybe I should install it and look |
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> at it more closely. |
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Yes, and what's more, the development version (release candidates too) |
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is also able to act as an icecast source, thus mpd+icecast2 can act as |
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a streaming server. I'm usually listening to music streamed from my |
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home box via an openvpn tunnel at work. :) |
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Also, mpd has gapless output by default, iirc. |
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1. http://www.musicpd.org/forum/index.php?topic=1189 |
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Andrej |
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