I'm considering my options for music playing around the house.  I have
much of my music digitised now and available from a file server that's
on all the time.  What I need is some simple 'clients' that can access
the file server and play the music.

So, a Pi can do the 'mechanics' as it were, access the files and play
them, *BUT* (and it's a big but) what do you do for a user interface?

I have getting on for ten thousand items arranged in a classified
hierarchy, when deciding on what to play I tend to navigate down the
hierarchy to the album I want, often I'm not looking for a particular
name, rather I want to be prompted by what Isee in a particular genre.

So how can one do this with a Pi, or is some other sort of approach
going to work better?  It needs a display of some sort and a means of
navigating, a remote (as in a TV type remote) would be nice, can one
get them to interface to a Pi easily?

... and I'm pretty much against a mobile phone interface, it's too
small for my (gently) fading eyesight and I don't get on well with on
screen keyboards.  I've actually just changed back from a smartphone
to a feature phone with real buttons for this very reason.

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Chris Green
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