[myth-ie] music

[Justin Mason]

Michael Thompson writes:
> On 03/01/2008, Brendan Kehoe <brendan at zen.org> wrote:
> 
>   >  Has any one got a decent mythmusic setup working? I have about 30K
>   > mp3s and it is a PITA to use..
> 
>   I'd personally love (and thought about implementing but no time) support
>   for accessing iTunes, since most of our music is on the mini here in my
>   office but not playable downstairs in the livingroom. :)
> 
> mediatomb is a nice bit of software to export your music collection to
> other devices, like a PS3 for instance. Not sure of any UPNP-AV media
> renderer's that run in MythTV or even on Linux though.

MythTV 0.20 claims to be a uPnP server -- I think.   I don't know for
sure, since I have never been able to get uPnP (or DAAP for that matter)
interoperating with a variety of devices and servers.  I get the feeling
it's an awful piece of crap fake-"standard".

My best results have been:

  - using slimserver to access my mp3 collection on my linux server

  - using "esd" to play music from the laptop, over wifi, and through the
    mythbox' speakers: http://taint.org/wk/RemotePlaybackWithEsd .  I
    don't think my linux desktop apps support this anymore though :(

  - moving the laptop with the music on it over to the speakers, and
    plugging it in directly

failures:

  - NFS.  reading mp3 metadata on a big collection over wireless NFS is a
    disaster.

  - uPnP, DAAP (see above).

--j.