How to organize and tag classical music

[mccormw]

(14-10-2014 21:21)Pastim Wrote:  

(14-10-2014 19:24)simoncn Wrote:  

(14-10-2014 18:36)mccormw Wrote:  I have mpd running on a raspberry but unfortunately it just does not see this. Ah well never mind.

mpd isn't a UPnP renderer.

If you add upmpdcli from here

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/

mpd can effectively be a renderer. I have just done this on several systems and it works well.

In foobar2000, you can import a 'theme' which makes the controller easier to use. See

http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_upnp/foo_upnp_dui.fth

I had come across the lesboncomptes article earlier and thought that it looked promising. I am actually running Volumio which is a 'packaging' I believe of mpd. It supports UPnP servers but does not access their album database, it builds its own database, so I have just been using it to play music from folders on a drive on my NAS. Not ideal, but it works and it is only a secondary system in our dining room. It uses a Blackberry Pi B+, with a Turtle Beach Micro II USB DAC into an Exposure 8s poweramp driving an old set of JPW speakers. It surprisingly sounds pretty good.

But now I can have a look at implementing mpd from scratch and will use that article as a base.