Music Player Daemon (MPD) 2009-10-01 Re-Release

[toppertje]

(02-13-2010 10:17 AM)Angelkiller Wrote:  I got a HDX-1000 works fine when i watch movies, also works fine to listen to music with this MPD version.
But when i have been listening to music i make a que list after listening i make the clean list. to not start the music while starting a movie.
Everything work fine to here but after a while my HDX is starting to lag. Only thing to make everything work fine is to either pause movie a while or reboot the HDX.
Anyone have a solution for this kind of problem?

Hey guys,

Thanks for al the effort some of you are putting in to this. I installed mpd to the csi package that shadowcode made and it's working excellent. Only one strange thing is going. MPD responds to the buttons on my remote control. So when I start a movie with the play button, music starts. When I skip to a next chapter within a dvd, music starts playing. Do you guys have any idea why mpd is responding to (pushing home, return, source, a number, everything starts music to play) my remote control of the HDX/

Greetings,

Harold

[jluc2808]

(02-22-2010 10:02 PM)jluc2808 Wrote:  hello

1- is there a way to play music with MPD then change jukebox , play a slideshow without stopping playing music ?

the problem is the following :

with mpd you are able with the client to start a playlist -> ok
then you are able to change application and load a slideshow (out of MPD or MPDJB)
when you begin the slideshow the music stop
then you have to start music again , with a client which is on the PC or any materiel execpt PCH
after some investigation the syntax to play slideshow on the PCH is these one:

PHP Code:

<a href="Song URL" pod="Mode,Reserved ,Photo URL">Sample</a> 


with song URL either MUTE or a valide URL
if you want to play slieshow without music (via MONO) you should enter MUTE
so the music stop
if there another way to specify to play slideshow

2 - i have a problem with my music library, probably noob question , i would like to use 2 library of music hierarchy
- /share/Music
and
- /share/Music_test
how could i specify this and how could i switch beetween one each other
I tried modifying /share/Apps/mpd/etc/mpd.conf and substitute
music_directory "/share/Music"
by
music_directory "/share/Music_test"

but it needed to reboot to take it (perhaps there is an easier way ?)
but the database isn't reconstruct or append with the music in the new hierarchy folder
i miss surely something ?

up with this 2 questions :
1- is there a way to play music with MPD then change jukebox , play a slideshow without stopping playing music ?
2 - i would like to use 2 library of music hierarchy ?

[shadowcode]

I wouldn't know about 1), I'm sure you've searched the forum for slideshow apps. If it's not on this forum, it probably does not exist.
Regarding 2), you'll need to make a copy of the MPD folder and then edit the 2nd MPD folder's conf file to make sure that all paths point to the 2nd mpd folder. You will also need to pick a different TCP port and point music_directory to your other music folder.

Once you've done this you need to re-create the database by deleting the file 'database' and then restart MPD. It should re-create the database for you (provided it doesn't run into problems with you files, which the log at /share/Apps/MPD/var/log/mpd should reveal)

[jluc2808]

(03-17-2010 07:50 PM)shadowcode Wrote:  I wouldn't know about 1), I'm sure you've searched the forum for slideshow apps. If it's not on this forum, it probably does not exist.
Regarding 2), you'll need to make a copy of the MPD folder and then edit the 2nd MPD folder's conf file to make sure that all paths point to the 2nd mpd folder. You will also need to pick a different TCP port and point music_directory to your other music folder.

Once you've done this you need to re-create the database by deleting the file 'database' and then restart MPD. It should re-create the database for you (provided it doesn't run into problems with you files, which the log at /share/Apps/MPD/var/log/mpd should reveal)

thanks to reply
for 1 - yes checked a lot of forum , and didn't find a way to start slideshow without stopping MPD playing music - the reason why i posted the problem

for 2 - i already did that way, but this not my question, which is :
i want to tell MPD to scan 2 hierachy of music in the same session ie:
- Share/Music and Share/anotherFolderwhichcontainmusic
not swap from one to another

[avanegmond]

(03-17-2010 11:26 PM)jluc2808 Wrote:  thanks to reply
for 1 - yes checked a lot of forum , and didn't find a way to start slideshow without stopping MPD playing music - the reason why i posted the problem

for 2 - i already did that way, but this not my question, which is :
i want to tell MPD to scan 2 hierachy of music in the same session ie:
- Share/Music and Share/anotherFolderwhichcontainmusic
not swap from one to another

Regarding 2), I just don't think that is possible. mpd is developed to work with one music-directory, you can't just tell it to work with two if it wasn't developed like that.

The only thing you can do is to add a subdirectory to Share/Music with a symlink to Share/anotherFolderwhichcontainmusic. mpd will follow symlinks, so it looks for mpd like one music-directory.

-
aleg

[jluc2808]

(03-18-2010 06:13 AM)avanegmond Wrote:  Regarding 2), I just don't think that is possible. mpd is developed to work with one music-directory, you can't just tell it to work with two if it wasn't developed like that.

The only thing you can do is to add a subdirectory to Share/Music with a symlink to Share/anotherFolderwhichcontainmusic. mpd will follow symlinks, so it looks for mpd like one music-directory.

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aleg

thanks a lot for all your response, i suspected that this feature couldn't be supported by MPD , like it's implemented now, but would like to confirm with other user and specialist of MPD of this .

I tried the symlinks, whith a reconstruction of the database , but with this method i encountered some board effect, which are :

if the new folder hierachy have some album and music which have the same name than other album and music stored in the main hierachy , MPD play the first one , not really the one choosen.

As i would like to use this feature for test purpose, i have a lot of album and music which are duplicate , .... so it's a difficult to now what song in the hierachy is playing

perhaps there is a way to bypass this ?

[avanegmond]

(03-18-2010 07:49 AM)jluc2808 Wrote:  thanks a lot for all your response, i suspected that this feature couldn't be supported by MPD , like it's implemented now, but would like to confirm with other user and specialist of MPD of this .

I tried the symlinks, whith a reconstruction of the database , but with this method i encountered some board effect, which are :

if the new folder hierachy have some album and music which have the same name than other album and music stored in the main hierachy , MPD play the first one , not really the one choosen.

As i would like to use this feature for test purpose, i have a lot of album and music which are duplicate , .... so it's a difficult to now what song in the hierachy is playing

perhaps there is a way to bypass this ?

I don't know if you could sove this. If the album name is exactly the same, it will probably take the first one. The mpd-database is very simple file (that's why it is still fast to use) with label-value pairs.

What I do when albums are the same, e.g. when having re-releases or releases on different record labels, is to add the record label to the end of the album name. Like this "Live Evil (Columbia G 30954)" and "Live-Evil (Columbia Legacy C2K 65135)".

The only solution, I think, is to actually make the album have a different name. Esp. when only testing that's not a big deal really.

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aleg

[shadowcode]

I know that my MPD client for the iPhone (MPOD) supports browsing the folders rather than the database. Maybe your client can do the same?

Other than that, there's not much you can do.

[jluc2808]

(03-17-2010 11:26 PM)jluc2808 Wrote:  thanks to reply
for 1 - yes checked a lot of forum , and didn't find a way to start slideshow without stopping MPD playing music - the reason why i posted the problem

finaly i find a way to start slideshow without stopping music (play with MPD)

the way :

create an mp3 file containing silent only, and play slideshow with this mp3 using MONO, while MPD is playing the real song
i discover that MONO and MPD could play together and the music of both this player are added, so if one of them play silent the result is the one expected , end-user listen only the MPD music.

just change the MUTE option within the href instruction with the nosong.mp3 and play the slideshow with the pod instruction :

Code:

<a name="PHOTOPLAYLIST" id="mpdphotoplaylist" TVID="PLAY" href="nosong.mp3"  pod="1,1,file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/Photo_test/slideshow.jsp">

[avanegmond]

(03-18-2010 07:49 AM)jluc2808 Wrote:  thanks a lot for all your response, i suspected that this feature couldn't be supported by MPD , like it's implemented now, but would like to confirm with other user and specialist of MPD of this .

I tried the symlinks, whith a reconstruction of the database , but with this method i encountered some board effect, which are :

if the new folder hierachy have some album and music which have the same name than other album and music stored in the main hierachy , MPD play the first one , not really the one choosen.

As i would like to use this feature for test purpose, i have a lot of album and music which are duplicate , .... so it's a difficult to now what song in the hierachy is playing

perhaps there is a way to bypass this ?

BTW I tried it myself using albums with exactly the same name. In my iPod client mPod it shows as two albums with the same name and I can select both. It is of course impossible to know from the client which album is which, so it is not very convenient, but it does work.

So my guess is that your mpd-client may not be handling this properly and it may not be a fault of mpd.

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aleg

[jluc2808]

(03-19-2010 09:00 AM)avanegmond Wrote:  BTW I tried it myself using albums with exactly the same name. In my iPod client mPod it shows as two albums with the same name and I can select both. It is of course impossible to know from the client which album is which, so it is not very convenient, but it does work.

So my guess is that your mpd-client may not be handling this properly and it may not be a fault of mpd.

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aleg

yes you are right with interactive selection, my main problem is with playlist, where you can't choose the real music pointer, because your playlist is already registred or dynamically upgraded, then when the song name is reached , you don't choose with mpd client what song is to be played.

[Angelkiller]

New Update again: http://sourceforge.net/projects/musicpd/...%2F0.15.9/
0.15.9

[Cocotus]

I finally succeded in installing this killer app thanks to shadows packages
One thing that caused me headache was the fact that I didn't hear any sound after I changed music directory in mpd.conf to point to my music on NAS. Before I tested it on my internal harddrive in popcorn and it worked.
Solution was to get rid of the "#"-comment in lines audio_output-section of mpc.conf. After that I heard sound of network.

Now I want to ask is it possible to stream internet radio with mpd? I read that its already established in newer version.

[antherion]

(03-26-2010 11:42 AM)Cocotus Wrote:  I finally succeded in installing this killer app thanks to shadows packages
One thing that caused me headache was the fact that I didn't hear any sound after I changed music directory in mpd.conf to point to my music on NAS. Before I tested it on my internal harddrive in popcorn and it worked.
Solution was to get rid of the "#"-comment in lines audio_output-section of mpc.conf. After that I heard sound of network.

Now I want to ask is it possible to stream internet radio with mpd? I read that its already established in newer version.

Hi, I found the way to listen to Webradio .. more here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=37478

[teknopapst]

Hi *,

did anybody succseed with installing the MPD on a C200?

If not, is there another good musik jukbox (for C200) which allows me to controll it wire laptop or Iphoe ?


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