On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:06:40 -0400 Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2008 08:38, pete shorthose wrote: > > > all way. I like all my music to be easy to search and there is > > > 200gb of it. > > so like you, i'm still waiting for the RightThingTM to come along. > > until that day, it's xmms for me. > > sad but true. > > I'm in the same boat (100GB+ of music, all ripped over the course of > several years from CDs I own.) I also listen to music more on my > Archos jukebox than any of my PCs. So, rather than use one style of > organization on the PCs (maintaining a separate database for each > one, or using MPD which means I have to use a different program to > play files from the network than local files) and another on the > Archos, I navigate my collection using Konqueror, play songs or > playlists with xmms (I'd rather a simple, native-UI player that > supports playlists and EQ but doesn't feature retarded teenage > boy "skins", but have yet to find one) and rsync those same songs and > playlists over to the Archos to play in the car. Why can't you use mpd for network and local stuff? For use with mpd I use to mount a network share at say ~/music/net, create a link to the local music folder at ~/music/local and tell mpd to look at ~/music/. Works for me just fine. Best Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
