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#26 2009-05-18 19:27:34
- jorpheus
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Re: Pros and Cons of Databasing Music
If you've got a good strict filesystem hierarchy, it would sort of make tagging and commenting files sort of a moot point.
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#27 2009-05-18 20:31:37
- stefanwilkens
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Re: Pros and Cons of Databasing Music
true, mpd doesn't pick up changes in tags... but destroying the database and re-creating it really doesn't take a lot of time.
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#28 2009-05-18 21:37:51
- Rasi
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Re: Pros and Cons of Databasing Music
Berticus wrote:Lastly, is there a way to play an individual song, instead of adding it to a databse, discover I don't like it, and then remove it? Or do you guys just use a separate program for that?
There is no official way but there is a small script (mpc-play) at the mpd wiki site which does just that. It works by adding a temporary symlink from the music database folder to the file you want to play and then playing it. It works very nice. When I double click a file in my file manager it simply starts playing without any interface popping up and I can stop it with my keyboard media keys.
MPD can be used with unix sockets instead of tcp - this allows playing of songs that are not in database
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