[mythtvnz] Remote frontend and music

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, April 11, 2007 4:23 pm, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:18:58 Craig Box wrote:
>> <rant>
>>
>> MythMusic is a pig and needs to die.  Thor was once working on a
>> frontend/backend setup for MythTV called mfe/mfd, but development didn=
't
>> get very far.  (This would let you do video as well).  A guy was paid =
to
>> work on MythMusic for last years Google Summer of Code but never
>> finished
>> the work and seemed to just disappear, and I've not seen any evidence
>> that
>> what he did do, ever got included in the trunk.
>>
>> It's an unloved stepchild.  It seems cursed and unlikely to ever make =
it
>> right unless someone puts a lot of love into it.
>
> It has been getting attention in SVN trunk lately.

Oh good.

>> A new frontend to mpd (musicpd.org) looks like a good answer, if the
>> right
>> person gets bored.
>
> There is someone doing this at present I believe, I was watching their
> conversation on irc.

This is a real problem. I've had customer wonder what the hell MythMusic
is as they are used to the likes of iTunes. It really is a pain to use at
times.

Steve
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