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.

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).

If you are handy with scripting and the filenames / directory names are
meaningful could you write a tagging script for those MP3s?

Kid3 can do that with a button-push. Which is nice, in cases where the
filenames are meaningful. Cue hollow laughter - well, some of them are, but
plenty aren't.

$ find /home/music | egrep '/01.(mp3|flac)' | wc -l
259

Directory names are meaningful, as they more-or-less have to be, I could
script that, but it's not worth it - if I've to be doing the individual
tracks by hand it's hardly any extra nuisance to slap the 'Album' name in at
the same time. I do find Kid3 pretty convenient. And in the meantime, I have
players that'll browse the filesystem as well as the tags.

But I have written a perl script to check for and apply ReplayGain, which
seems to work, and improves things.


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.

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