Re: Common music database?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Cool.  I will take a look at it.  The project seems similiar to
mpd which in fact has a gnome frontend that looks very similar
to rhythmbox.  I've been looking for a music player that would steam
music to work but have been unable to find one.

That's why I wanted a common music db in order to create shoutcast
playlists or whatever from the database.  Nobody has reached that level
of sophistication yet.  I mean, it's something cool to be able to turn
your music db into a home based radio with many channels so that different
rooms could have different music.  :-)

Anyways, I will hold off on questions (and probably mail you
privately since it's probably offtopic)

sri


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:49:04PM +0200, Daniel Svensson wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> > I would be happy to try out anything. :-)  I'm confused is
> > xxms2 == bmpx or we're talking about something else altogether?
> Not at all. XMMS2 has nothing to do with BMP or BMPx, it's the second
> generation of the old and trustworthy XMMS. Initially written by Peter
> Alm, the original author of XMMS, and now led by Tobias Rundström and
> Anders Gustafsson. It's a music player daemon set out to do the right
> thing. It does not share a single line of code with the old XMMS music
> player. It has a medialib similar to that of banshee/rhythmbox.
> However in the next months(sooner than later) a new way of thinking
> about the medialibrary/playlist will be implemented, not seen in any
> other application yet. It is capable of gapless playback. As it is a
> daemon it doesn't depend on X running, thus allowing it to be used in
> a wide variety of scenarios. Everything from webfrontends, bluetooth
> clients, kde or gnome applications to ncurses. It runs on Linux, BSD
> and OS X. A Windows port is in the works.
> 
> A front end uses the libxmmsclient to connect to the daemon. A front
> end called a client and is very much like our old irl remote controls,
> but with all the powers of modern music player interfaces.
> Communication can be either sync or async depending on application.
> The clientlibrary supports querying the medialibrary and controlling
> playlist and playback aswell as config variables. There are language
> bindings for the client library written for python, ruby, perl, lisp,
> java, and additional bindings are easily written.
> 
> xmms2 project focuses on creating a good music player core for both
> power users and others, and leaves the gui building to people who are
> good at that. The development has been going on for a long time and
> has some time left until the set out goals has been accomplished. It
> is in active development and well focused on its goals.
> 
> This description is just the tip of the iceberg, so go and browse the
> wiki instead.
> 
> The wiki can be found at:
> http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se
> Interesting parts to read are: Read me first, faq, collections, developer ideas
> 
> Source code can be found at:
> http://git.xmms.se/?p=xmms2-devel.git;a=summary
> 
> Tutorial on how to write clients in diffrent languages can be found at:
> http://git.xmms.se/?p=xmms2-tutorial.git;a=summary
> 
> The project is found on irc.freenode.net in the #xmms2 channel.
> 
> --
> Daniel Svensson, <daniel nittionio nu>

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