MPD-How to make it complete

ravisghosh · 2007-05-27 22:37:06

MPD is really nice and light. But I could not find a client that would give all the functionalities of music manager cum player, like amarok, rhythmbox, and other heavy-weight music player. Madman is great, reads all the id3 tags, but it opens another app xmms which is what I dont like. gmpc seems better than sonata (the 2 that i have tried).

Please suggest something.

dtw · 2007-05-27 23:26:53

I would suggest that mpd != amarok ... and never will be. If want all that bloat why not just use it?

ravisghosh · 2007-05-29 02:58:13

well, bloat is the only reason amarok is not acceptable. but a better client for mpd is certainly possible with better management functionalities and thats gonna be much much lighter than amarok and alike. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

mitsoko · 2007-05-29 07:18:44

if you're so concerned about bloat, why not use exaile .. it's very similar to amarok and is lightweight imo, so is listen .. hasn't been touched in a while .. but it works great ..

iphitus · 2007-05-29 10:28:36

ravisghosh wrote:

MPD is really nice and light. But I could not find a client that would give all the functionalities of music manager cum player, like amarok, rhythmbox, and other heavy-weight music player. Madman is great, reads all the id3 tags, but it opens another app xmms which is what I dont like. gmpc seems better than sonata (the 2 that i have tried).
Please suggest something.

then I guess you havn't really looked around, there's other frontends.

a lot of the features that are in amarok, can or are available as plugins for existing mpd frontends. By no means are all of them, but some are. gmpc has a range of plugins, and im sure there was another python based mpd front that had plugins too.

James

cpu · 2007-05-29 17:48:26

Try GMPC -> http://sarine.nl/gmpc for me it's better than sonata if you need a lot o futures. All plugins are in AUR.

ravisghosh · 2007-05-30 03:05:31

exploring gmpc now..

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MPD-How to make it complete

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