[mythtvnz] Remote frontend and music

Hadley Rich mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:23:16 +1200


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.

> 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.

hads

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