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Tomahawk, the multi-source music player
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MPD Support #547

Closed langston-barrett closed 8 years ago

langston-barrett commented 8 years ago

I don't see MPD (or Mopidy) on Tomahawk's homepage as a supported source for music. Is there a reason not to have these? It seems like they would fit right in with the other streaming music sources.

theli-ua commented 8 years ago

well, mpd is not a source to stream tracks, its a player. doesn't feel like it fits tbh

langston-barrett commented 8 years ago

@theli-ua Thanks for highlighting that difference!

duncanjohnhowe commented 8 years ago

I think mpd control would be a good feature; it would make tomahawk be a more direct competitor to RoonLabs software.

So I use a raspberry pi with a iqaudio dac for some very high quality audio. This is controlled by the MoodeAudio distribution; basically a web-server acts as a front-end to mpd. Although the web-server runs on the pi; in principle it doesn't have to. I suspect with a bit of tweaking you could control multiple computers. http://moodeaudio.org/

This raspberry pi can either be used with headphones; or plugged into my amp.

Imagine you have Tomahawk controlling this; you have a front end that allows you to explore your music; and play it back where you like.

dschmidt commented 8 years ago

@duncanjohnhowe you can stream your audio output over the network to the pi plugged into your amp, with pulseaudio e.g.