[mythtvnz] Remote frontend and music

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, April 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> 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 MythMusi=
c
> is as they are used to the likes of iTunes. It really is a pain to use =
at
> times.
>
> Steve

IMHO a front end to slimserver would be great. If I knew how to code the
graphical parts of the front end I would adapt slimp3slave

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Nick Rout