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Hello, I haven't used MPD in about a year but I was wondering if anyone had tried to use MPD with a removable usb mp3 player like a Sansa? I have never tried it before. I'm using an EeePc, so I was thinking MPD would be nice and light. Since the Eee has only 4GB of space, I figured I would just keep my music on the Sansa, and keep my /home on SD free. Anyway, MPD + Sansa Clip, would anyone recommend it?
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I haven't done it myself, but I suppose you could easily include a static mount folder into MPD's library......
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Is there a way to make sure my audio player always mounts to the same location? Sometimes it will mount as "Disk", sometimes it mounts as "Disk-1". Can I use UUID's like a hard drive maybe?
Last edited by vvlist (2009-01-22 22:58:50)
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You can add the device to /etc/fstab to have it mounted in the same folder. Just use the UUID.
EDIT: I just realised that MPD requires creation of a database....ie, it would break if the device weren't plugged in. You'd have to send the update command everytime you plug it in/out.
Last edited by Sander Hoksbergen (2009-01-23 00:12:54)
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Thank you for your help. I'll keep looking. Is there any lightweight media player that plays FLAC that isn't complicated out there? I've looked at BMP and audacious...
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Possibly Consonance?
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I ran across consonance in the forums, but I only have core, extra, and community enabled. A "pacman -S consonance" didn't do the trick. Can I download consonance and install it with pacman, or do I have to enable the AUR repository? (I'm very new to Arch)
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I'm running mpd with an external harddrive. My database folder is ~music, and I used symlinks to link to the "real" music DB on the external HD (ln -s link_target link_name). The mpd database creator follows the symlink and adds all the music on the external drive to its database. I can start mpd, mount the drive, and voilá: music.
So, if the Sansa Clip works like an external HDD too, it should work fine.
Last edited by Runiq (2009-01-23 11:46:09)
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I'm running mpd with an external harddrive. My database folder is ~music, and I used symlinks to link to the "real" music DB on the external HD (ln -s link_target link_name). The mpd database creator follows the symlink and adds all the music on the external drive to its database. I can start mpd, mount the drive, and voilá: music.
So, if the Sansa Clip works like an external HDD too, it should work fine.
Yeah, but if the Clip isn't plugged in, it'll kinda not work like expected.
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Yeah, but if the Clip isn't plugged in, it'll kinda not work like expected.
That's true, but I didnt experience any showstopping bugs as of now. MPD just skips tracks it doesn't find and plays the rest fine, so there's no need to re-create the database each time you plugin your Clip.
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