<img src=”/img/gmpc.png” alt=“GNOME music player client” style=“float:left” />
While setting up, I want to have an elegant solution for listening music. So the server gets a soundcard. Until now I’ve played music with Rhythmbox or BMP player, depending on my daily mood. The first idea of mine was to use a standalone sound-daemon. I decided to try esd but Alan Cox said the right thing about it: “I don’t know why and I’m not yet motivated to fix it since my views on esd are mostly unprintable.” Esd is buggy, its ugly code and its not usable. So I kicked it. Then I was looking for other Daemons. I looked at arts, but it depends on QT and QT itself depends on X. And who wants to have X installed on a Server? Also NAS depends on X, so it is also not the right thing for me.
Again I looked to the portage and I found MPD, Music Player Daemon. It sounded really interesting and so I tried it out. Now I know, this was really the best thing, I could do. NAS is a serverbased daemon and there are a client for near to every interface you want to have. Currently I’m using gmpc and it works quite fine. MPD works a bit different from esd and consorts. It is not only an output-daemon but a complete framework to play music, which is directed on the server, with nice clients and the server soundcard is used as the output device.
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