Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1289 from 2003/2/25
From: binaryriot
Ever heard of MPD (Music Player Daemon)? No, don't be afraid.. I didn't either before analogkid pushed me to do this mind-bogging tool to be able to control it from MorphOS. It started out as simply clone of enqueueTorrent, but in the end a completly new product was born. I have no idea if it's really useful or not. Can't try it out myself really.
Quote:MPDControl is a very basic commandline based client for the Music Player Daemon (short: MPD).
Music Player Daemon allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and Wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network.
For more information about the Music Player Daemon visit its official site:
http://musicpd.org/.
With MPDControl it is now possible to control a MPD server from MorphOS. E.g. have MPD running on an EFIKA with Linux and manage everything comfortably from a Pegasos with MorphOS. MPDControl can be used as a MMKeyboard or Toolmanager hotkey or be launched via some simple project icons and AmigaDOS scripts from a dedicated Ambient panel. The possibilities are numerous.
Personally I have no idea if MPDControl is really that useful (I coded it 'blindly' w/o having a MPD server running or access to one), but the person who needed it and did all the testing said it works fine: so, if something doesn't work then blame analogkid.
(please note that you need iconv.library v3 or better)
regards,
tokai
