On 06/27/2016 01:12 PM, Richard Robinson wrote:
Peter Chant said:
On 06/23/2016 12:40 PM, Bob Latham wrote:

For your raspberry pi code Google OpenHome UPnP.

I'm getting good results with MPD in the Pi with the music on another
machice as a file server. OK, sometimes FLAC tracks are a little slow
to start but generally it is good.

Yes, that's looking like my next step. I looked at volumio and a couple of
the other dedicated audio distros, but I couldn't get them to even boot and
have reached the point where MPD's looking like a more worthwhile option
than throwing any more time at them.


I believe that and others use mpd as a backend.

How does accessing the remote disk work, do you need NFS/Samba, somthing
like that ? I've never needed anything like that before (it's not a problem,
I can do Geek when I have to).

mpd can apparently connect directly to a smb or nfs server. In my
config I mount the nfs director using /etc/fstab. Partly as I did not
realise mpd could connect to the server directly.


Which all reminds me - is there any way of storing tag data outside the
music file ? It's irritating, and slow, having to back up music files in
their entirety when I've only made changes to the tag data.


Don't know. Playlist per album?