Re: [LAU] Decent and attractive audio player

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:06:40 -0400
Rob <lau@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Sunday 27 April 2008 08:38, pete shorthose wrote:
> > > all way. I like all my music to be easy to search and there is
> > > 200gb of it.
> > so like you, i'm still waiting for the RightThingTM to come along.
> > until that day, it's xmms for me.
> > sad but true.
>
> I'm in the same boat (100GB+ of music, all ripped over the course of
> several years from CDs I own.) I also listen to music more on my
> Archos jukebox than any of my PCs. So, rather than use one style of
> organization on the PCs (maintaining a separate database for each
> one, or using MPD which means I have to use a different program to
> play files from the network than local files) and another on the
> Archos, I navigate my collection using Konqueror, play songs or
> playlists with xmms (I'd rather a simple, native-UI player that
> supports playlists and EQ but doesn't feature retarded teenage
> boy "skins", but have yet to find one) and rsync those same songs and
> playlists over to the Archos to play in the car.

Why can't you use mpd for network and local stuff?
For use with mpd I use to mount a network share at say ~/music/net,
create a link to the local music folder at ~/music/local and tell mpd
to look at ~/music/.
Works for me just fine.

Best Regards,
        Philipp
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Received on Mon Apr 28 00:15:02 2008