Roger Bell_West  wrote:
> On 2019-10-11, Chris Green wrote:
> >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.
>
> mpd.
>
> With the right configuration you can get an mp3 stream, which a pi
> will happily play. And control is through a standard protocol, with
> lots of different interfaces available (including a bunch of web-based
> ones) to suit various tastes. I like
> https://github.com/bobboau/Bragi-MPD among others.
>
> Right now I'm listening to a stream encoded on the media server,
> played through a Pi and speakers, and controlled it via ncmpcpp
> (terminal client) and M.A.L.P. on Android.
>
Android, as I said, is not for me (for choosing music anyway).  What
I'm really after is advice/ideas on the 'physical' interface used for
choosing music.  There are loads of options providing a web interface
or a mobile phone interface but I want a (probably) larger and/or
dedicated screen and real buttons to press.

I've already done the mpd (or whatever) bit! :-)

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Chris Green
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