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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

Man!  Being able to kill X and still keep the tunes going is superb!  It's really really super nice.  I'm going to setup a hifi system at my new apartment based around mpd and sonata when I fix my speaker foam that someone kicked a hole through at my mom's place

Anyway, don't mean to be cluttering up the forums with these unnecessary messages.  If you come across this and haven't tried the mpd + sonata combo, you should tryitreallyfast ... and see if you like it

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

I also use (and like!) this combination....

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

I prefer mpd & ncmpc. But sonata is also really nice...

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

I agree, it's excellent.

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

I prefer mpd & ncmpc. But sonata is also really nice...

I agree.

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Husio

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From: Europe

Registered: 2005-12-04

Posts: 359

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

mpd + ncmpc for setting playlist and sonata for dbus info

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

Niiice, mcmpc is also very classy!  I'll be using that when I've been tinkering with X too much, thanks

ravisghosh

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From: Intergalactic Spaces

Registered: 2006-10-12

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

how do u get sonata+mpd working. I start sonata and it says its not connected.

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kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

Posts: 185

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

You need to install/configure/start MPD first.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPD

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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

Ah yeah, and MPD is super easy to setup.  I just cp'd the example config into mpd.conf and changed the music and playlist lines to point to where I keep mine.  Done.  Run mpd, start Sonata, and you should be good to go.

mpd and sonata are both separate packages in the pacman repositories, run "pacman -S mpd sonata" to get them both.

ravisghosh

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From: Intergalactic Spaces

Registered: 2006-10-12

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

I tried sonata and gmpc. I think gmpc is better in managing files than sonata. Is there any other client recommended for its functionalitiy you would like to suggest like editing id3 tags from the clinet as madman does.

Also, the multimedia keys assigned to gmpc becomes exclusive to it as you cannot use it in other programs. For example, i assigned "c" for play/pause and now i'm unable to type "C" in any other program, like text editor or web browsers. Is there a way to overcome this problem such that the key works only when gmpc window is active.

And when i close gmpc, mpd keeps on playing the song. sonata has an option which stops mpd when sonata is closed, but not gmpc.

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cpu

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 68

Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

GMPC have this future too - just install gmpc-stopbutton from AUR!

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

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Re: mpd + sonata = really, really nice!

i wish sonata had an option to start mpd if it's not already running. it has an autoconnect, seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add a function to check if mpd were running and start (and even stop it) with starting/stopping sonata.