Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:13:31 +0000, Roger Bell_West wrote:
>> The canonical free software answer is mpd (and your client of choice) to
>> control indexing and playback, and some lightweight stream player such
>> as mpv or even omxplayer to do the actual generation of audio. (I run
>> mpd on the server where the music is stored, and stream it to a Pi.)
>>
> I wandered over to its website, but was less than impressed with the
> documentation, in particular:
>
> - it mentioned recoding music files but didn't give a list of file
>   formats that it was prepared to recode
>
> - there was no description on how it catalogues music files, i.e.
>   does it only use exif tags (and if so, how) and what, if any
>   information it gets from the file structure holding the music files
>   and/or playlists. No info about what playlist formats it can use either.

It's fairly shit in that regard, yes, but I like its simplicity. "man mpc"
has all the info. (mpc is the commandline controller)

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