On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:39:07AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 13/03/11 13:57, Chris G wrote:
I'm just beginning to dip my toe(s) into moving recorded music and other such things (e.g. radio programmes) onto a computer or computers.
One thing I'd prefer is to be able to keep all the files in a directory hierarchy of my own making rather than using a media player's own way of doing things.
I tried various things until I settled on mpd + client of choice
I'm trying mpd+ario+ncmpcpp, all looks fairly good to me. One question occurs however - how do you get music into the mdp default directory (/var/lib/mpd) without being root? Do you simply change its default music directory to somewhere more accessible or do you play clever games with permissions so an ordinary user can put music there, or what?
I've no real problem with using root to do some things but I'd prefer not to have to be root just to store music files.