Best music application for playing songs off a Windows share

apastuszak · 2015-10-10 03:42:57

I run Arch on my laptop and desktop computer. And I have a server that runs Ubuntu 14.04 currently (will be Arch when 14.04 support ends). All of my music is on a folder on the server and is shared out via samba. There are currently 16,000+ tracks, with 2/3 of them being FLACs and the other 1/3 a mix of MP3s and AAC files.

I've tried a number of different apps to play the music and they all take forever to refresh when I launch them. Are there any desktop apps that can sync up pretty quickly with a network folder?

boban_dj · 2015-10-10 05:36:24

I use cmus

c3kay · 2015-10-10 07:37:06

Deadbeef is quick, but I'm sharing over NFS, not Samba.

apastuszak · 2015-10-10 14:58:21

c3kay wrote:

Deadbeef is quick, but I'm sharing over NFS, not Samba.

I just set up NFS sharing last night. I'll need to give Deadbeef a try.

I was debating setting up mpd, but I don't want to transcode.

apastuszak · 2015-10-10 14:59:30

boban_dj wrote:

I use cmus

I'd never heard of cmus before. I'll need to do some homework.

graysky · 2015-10-10 15:06:02

I like mpd which keeps its own, local db. Just mount the samba share to /foo/bar and index that. MANY clients available for mpd.

apastuszak · 2015-10-10 15:37:09

graysky wrote:

I like mpd which keeps its own, local db. Just mount the samba share to /foo/bar and index that. MANY clients available for mpd.

Can mpd stream different formats? I have music in FLAC, mp3, aac and vorbis. I would prefer not to transcode.

graysky · 2015-10-10 15:43:33

Yes. Try it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … yer_Daemon

apastuszak · 2015-10-10 15:49:42

graysky wrote:

Yes. Try it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … yer_Daemon

Sweet. I'll be having some geeky music fun tonight.

bleach · 2015-10-10 15:57:19

have you let it read for the first time and then come back. after the first it should be fast no matter the player as long as they index.

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apastuszak · 2015-10-10 16:02:09

bleach wrote:

have you let it read for the first time and then come back. after the first it should be fast no matter the player as long as they index.

I tried Lollypop (wanted a GTK3+ UI) and Rhythmbox. It seems either neither one indexes, or if they do, they're unable to do a diff against a samba share (which is quite possible).

Lollypop specifically, can take as long as a half hour to update after the initial scan.

Need to get the rest of the family on Linux, then I can get rid of Samba. :-)

apastuszak · 2015-10-14 03:16:57

Ok, mpd set up and running wonderfully. Only issue I have is that I can't get mpd to auto-start when I log in.

Used the Arch wiki guide here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … yer_Daemon

Only problem I am having is that I can't get mpd to startup when I log in.

I created the mpd.desktop file from the wiki and put it in ~/.config/autostart, but it won't autostart.

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