Now see this.....
On 06/01/13 14:07, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Pick up an O2 Joggler from ebay (£50 or so) It already has analogue audio out so job done there
Plug some USB storage in the side, this is your media archive and has a boot partition for Linux (easy enough to do on a Joggler..I've had mine booting ubuntu before) There are a few well documented fixes to work around the aggressive thermal throttling and improve the sound output.
Now have it auto start a GUI mpd client like ario or impc or whatever is your preference and works best on a touchscreen.
Now you have your mpd server and it has a local front end...madness or genius ?...you decide.
Was such a crazy idea I had to try it...it actually works quite well.
The Joggler runs mpd and gimmix as a local client (gimmix is about the most touch friendly client I could find) and mounts my music library over NFS (or it could be local storage as I suggested)
Then I used MPDroid to control it via my phone, it can even stream the output to the phone as well as or instead of the Jogglers audio output.