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eldamar

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 104

mpd ir client

Hi! im looking for a mpd client that i can controll from the comfort of my own sofa, in front of my TV.
preferably a client that i can controll easily with an ir remote.
i found mpdlirc but is that easy? i want to be able to browse my music folders...

Last edited by eldamar (2008-07-20 13:39:58)

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: mpd ir client

ncmpc lets you browse music folders using only up, down, enter and space. There's probably a way to get that to work with a remote?

eldamar

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 104

Re: mpd ir client

I guess that will work.
Would love to have a mpd client that looked like coverflow in itunes =/

rostoQ

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Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 40

Re: mpd ir client

Would love to have a mpd client that looked like coverflow in itunes =/

Would be nice and not impossible...

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: mpd ir client

I just set up something of the sort -- it doesn't support browsing the folders (yet) or coverflow , but I can do pretty much anything I need within the current playlist (play/pause/stop/next/previous/seek/volume/mute), I think it should also be pretty simple to set up the 0-9 keys on the remote to select predefined playlists.  I'm using an old IrDA remote that came with a "media-center" computer I bought years ago.  By the way, from what I've read about it mpdlirc is not really necessary for anything, I can do everything it can do with a combination of irexec (provided by lirc-utils package) and mpc.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-08-23 00:36:44)

eldamar

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 104

Re: mpd ir client

thanks for the reply, fwojciec let me know how your project is going, really disslike my current mythmusic configuration xD