On 10/09/13 11:25, Chris Green wrote:
For music I'm using mpd to play the music and various clients to drive mpd but it still feels rather a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Not really sure why you think that. I use mpd and a mix of the android client and ncmpcpp and it's almost perfect.
My wife wanted a dedicated bit of hardware to control volume and play music from, rather than relying on her phone. That was simple enough I just took an old O2 Joggler and shoved android on it and used the MPDroid client.
Lovely clean interface and decent enough search and playlist features. Oh and the best bit...if we wanted multiroom all I'd need is more jogglers and some decent amplified speakers (AE Aego M gets my vote) because MPDroid supports audio redirection....or I can just redirect to my phone and plug headphones in.
I use XMBC for videos and TV etc but it's a little cumbersome for Music playback so I just run the mpd server alongside it on the same set top box...the music itself lives on my HP Mini server and is connected via NFS.
Oh then pointing at the same library I have k-playlist running on the server so if I want to stream something to the office I can.