Hi,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:33:51PM +0100, vasco 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). I'm not sure what you really mean by "from the file system folders" (which seems more like an optionnal advantage than a disadvantage to me, from what you described). To be clear, when you configure Sonata to connect to a specific MPD server, you can choose to specify where the music files directory is. This is optionnal, and if you *can* choose this directory, you will be able to: 1. save lyrics and covers in this directory, if you choose to do so (that's it, if you set the options to SONG_DIR/ in the "Display" preference); 2. edit songs tags directly from Sonata; 3. drag'n drop files from your file browser into Sonata, though I'm not really sure how it works (the code is not really clear about that). If you don't set this setting or if it has a wrong value, that's the only things that should not working. If by "from the file system folder", you refer to the "Filesystem" browser in the "Library" tab of Sonata, this is all done internally by MPD and Sonata only displays what MPD returns, so it should work even if the described setting above is not set. > 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? Sonata only uses what MPD returns, except for the case described above (possibly other corner cases I'm not aware of) So, it somehow get the "database structure" from MPD and you can choose the songs you want to play from this list, but that's just the super normal MPD mode, nothing specific to Sonata. Did it help you clarify your problem? Cheers, Jon > 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
