Hi Now I see what you're getting at ... I do that over here via a samba server on the other box - I mount that share on the box where sonata is running - et voila - you can choose from your collection to your hearts content - you can script the little process and a click on an icon does the rest.
my 2 cents mike On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:33:51 +0100 vasco <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Mike: > > Thank you for your input. The reason I asked is that I read somewhere > that one of the disadvantages of Sonata was that one could choose the > music from the file system folders, but that would only be possible if > the music database was on the local system (local to Sonata, that is). > Now, since the database has to be under control of Music Player Daemon > (which would be running in the "other PC"), I was left wondering. > > Maybe I interpreted wrongly what I read, or maybe Sonata can now do > something unsupported sometime in the past. So let me ask another > question, so things can get clear for me once and for all. When Sonata > connects to Music Player Daemon in the "other PC", does Sonata import > the database structure in order to give us the possibility to choose > which tracks to play? > > Anyway, thanks for your help. > > On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 18:35 +0200, mike wrote: > > Hi > > > > That should be possible - in the Preferences of Sonata -> MPD put the IP of > > the other box where it says Host and note the port it runs on - you can even > > define profiles for different setups. > > > > regards > > mike > > > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:33:59 +0100 > > vasco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to run Sonata in one box and Music Player Daemon in > > > another? Any hints as to how to configure such a setup? > > > > > > Thank you in advance for your ideas. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Sonata-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sonata-users > > _______________________________________________ > > Sonata-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sonata-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Sonata-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sonata-users _______________________________________________ Sonata-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sonata-users
