On 03/11/2010 10:27 AM, birger wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:13 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: > >> Auggggh! I finally understand! The people who wrote the mpd (music >> player daemon) and the clients created a fully networked architecture >> for playing music where the DAEMON PLAYS THE MUSIC! >> This is not streaming media at all. The daemon has to be on your local >> machine which completely defeats the purpose of consolidating your music >> on a central server. I started all this because playing music off nfs >> mounts caused all sorts of problems when I put my laptop on and off the >> docking station (network interruption and nfs problems galore!). >> I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would set out to architect >> it this way but its usless to me :( >> > In 'landscape' type offices it is ideal. Instead of everyone playing > their own music, people forgetting to turn off the music when they go, > etc... Set up one system with decent speakers and mpd. Then everyone can > add music to the queue, pause it when needed (boss on the phone) and so > on. > > Ideal for any setting where you want one dedicated system to power the > music but distributed control. Not what you wanted. Wrong tool :-) > > > birger > > Well I went back and tried a solution that I originally rejected because I thought it was "clunky".. turns out I was wrong (again). I installed mt-daapd server on my server. Changed the mp3 dir in the config file to point to my music dir, and started the server. You can logon to a local web page with the admin password, but its unnecessary. Then install rhythmbox on your laptop, start it and select File->Connect to Daap Share.. fill in the dialog and your local daap server gets added to the shared tree tab. all my music is there, and indexed FAST. This is what I've been looking for. I'll experiment with the playlists to see how convenient it is.. but its already much better than playing music off shares... thnx wcn -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
