[LAU] Decent and attractive audio player

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:06:40 -0400
Rob <lau at kudla.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 27 April 2008 08:38, pete shorthose wrote:
> > > all way. I like all my music to be easy to search and there is
> > > 200gb of it.
> > so like you, i'm still waiting for the RightThingTM to come along.
> > until that day, it's xmms for me.
> > sad but true.
> 
> I'm in the same boat (100GB+ of music, all ripped over the course of 
> several years from CDs I own.)  I also listen to music more on my 
> Archos jukebox than any of my PCs.  So, rather than use one style of 
> organization on the PCs (maintaining a separate database for each 
> one, or using MPD which means I have to use a different program to 
> play files from the network than local files) and another on the 
> Archos, I navigate my collection using Konqueror, play songs or 
> playlists with xmms (I'd rather a simple, native-UI player that 
> supports playlists and EQ but doesn't feature retarded teenage 
> boy "skins", but have yet to find one) and rsync those same songs and 
> playlists over to the Archos to play in the car. 

Why can't you use mpd for network and local stuff?
For use with mpd I use to mount a network share at say ~/music/net,
create a link to the local music folder at ~/music/local and tell mpd
to look at ~/music/.
Works for me just fine.

Best Regards,
	Philipp