From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGJBs-0008Ep-TK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7OHd95s012725; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:39:09 GMT Received: from kerberos.ynet.sk (proxy.ynet.sk [147.175.168.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7OHYanR009805 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:34:36 GMT Received: from daria.ynet.sk (daria.ynet.sk [147.175.171.246]) by kerberos.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B5B1B05B5 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Kacian2.emea.hpqcorp.net (vhiker [192.168.111.3]) by daria.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C8DA9FE for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:34:27 +0200 From: Andrej Kacian To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die. Message-ID: <20060824193427.2982c723@Kacian2.emea.hpqcorp.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> <44EDA6B9.2020504@gmail.com> <44EDB133.2000406@gentoo.org> <20060824170832.5d1f36f4@Kacian2.emea.hpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-cygwin) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 78735ec5-3b23-433c-9816-c692356b1ef4 X-Archives-Hash: 79a293e944a1a182e39239525a6a58fa On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:42:27 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: > Thank You for the tip. I looked at mpd also (only on web page). It > have probably good posibility to control it via command line. But what > about xosd support? (Which I mention in my previous post.) I do not > see any info on page about it. mpd (and xmms2) is just a server that is responsible for music playback, functionality such as xosd notification can be provided by clients, one such example is here[1]. Perhaps there are more. > What bothers me also, is that it has not plugin design like > xmms. Support for plugins is very good because lot of people can write > plugins for lot of things. This is why people do not want to switch > from xmms because thanks to plugins it have so many features that > currently no player is able to overcome it. That is true, but if you split the media player functionality between server and client, server doesn't need many plugins - it only needs to support as many media types as possible. Many xmms plugins I saw are frontend-related. This can be handled by MPD clients. One of main clients, gmpc, recently added plugin support, and already plugins for album covers or song lyrics are available. > Also I read that it is not possible to play file without addind it to > mpd's database.(?) It seems to be clumsy. This is mainly because mpd is designed to run remotely, i.e. not on your desktop - clients connect via TCP, so they have no idea about the filesystem on box where mpd runs. There are plans to allow this exact functionality via URIs in format: "file://". > Can it play streams from internet? Maybe I should install it and look > at it more closely. Yes, and what's more, the development version (release candidates too) is also able to act as an icecast source, thus mpd+icecast2 can act as a streaming server. I'm usually listening to music streamed from my home box via an openvpn tunnel at work. :) Also, mpd has gapless output by default, iirc. 1. http://www.musicpd.org/forum/index.php?topic=1189 -- Andrej -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list