On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:23 -0400, MVallevand wrote:

> On 8/17/06, Roland Turner (mvpmc-users) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shorter playlists work fine.
> 
> I thought that would be a problem, it really is a rather unyieldy
> approach.  I organize my music by artist to get around this.  Also the

I'm not interested in selecting music to play (more below).

> latest UPnP logic does a good job of organizing folders

I don't understand what that means. I thought that UPnP was a way for
devices to find each other on a network?

> > Is it [intended to be] possible to leave the device playing indefinitely
> > from a NAS (i.e. without a streaming server of any sort, just CIFS/NFS)?
> 
> I probably don't understand what is needed here, a  kiosk music player?

This stems from how I prefer to listen to my music collection; I simply
run xmms in shuffle repeat with a large (~3000 item) playlist. I rarely,
if ever, interact with it. About the only operations that I do require
are mute (turn the amplifier off) and "skip track". My interest in
mvpmc, and indeed, the MediaMVP was to provide an actually silent (not
merely quiet) device for my loungeroom and, noting its CIFS/NFS support,
my assumption was that it could be left playing off my existing NAS
device (the Asus WL-HDD is a very small, very quiet device which is
essentially a notebook harddrive in a box with wired and wifi
interfaces, installed elsewhere in my apartment). I really don't want to
have to run an additional PC to support the MediaMVP and I rather not
risk destabilising the WL-HDD. If slim-server really can be made to run
on it then, well, maybe. (Can mvpmc tell slimserver to skip tracks?)

> > BTW, your comment appears to suggest that it's possible to play "a
> > folder". As far as I can tell, you can only play an individual track or
> > a playlist. Have I missed something?
> 
> Yes hit the menu key and you can have shuffle play or play all.

Ah, got it. Thanks.

- Raz


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