On Monday 13 June 2005 19:39, Martijn Voncken wrote: > > I am not really keen on the built-in freevo player. It does not seem to > > be designed for a massive jukebox usage. I would like to use something > > more deeply based on xmms, which would be able to show some stats in the > > idlebar, show the active playlist... In this context, the content > > browser (mediainfo.py and stuff) shall only send entries to the current > > xmms playlist info... > > I also think freevo could use a "active-playlist" and option "add this > file to active-playlist" , but there is no work being done on that > yet.
IMHO xmms is the wrong backend - why depend on X? There is a consensus AFAICS that a better audio player (with "seamless" playback & playlists) would be nice, and IIRC there was someone willing to work on the integration of the "music player daemon" http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpd/ An advantage of this would be that Freevo serves merely as (one) frontend, and that you could simultaniously attach other frontends to the same server (e.g. external LCD displays, bluetooth-remote control with your mobile phone, whatever...). I liked that idea - anybody knows more? Ah, found the thread, it's "freevo and mpd", started by Carsten Breuer. Nicholas Ruddick added: [quote]"There is a command line client for mpd (Music Player Daemon) called mpc. Now if a plugin was made for freevo to use mpc, then freevo could effectively be remote controlled through mpd. The clients for mpd include a gnome based one (gmpc) a kde based one (kmp), a couple of gtk ones, two php ones and it links in with "Ampache - a web based streaming audio server" which I'm toying around with at the moment. There must be a windows based one somewhere, if not, i'll have a go at coding one."[/quote] Carsten again: "Im writing currently a windows client for MPD. My main target is Windows CE, because i want to use a handheld to control the server. But this also runs on a normal Windows Client. "The best way would be if freevo acts as an mpd client, so that it controls the mpd over locahost. With this, you can create a playlist with the handheld, any modify it on the TV with freevo. I think, taht would be smart." Nicholas then tried mpd python bindings and found out that mpd brings its own music database along: http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg10403.html Ciao, / / /--/ / / ANS ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
