Mopidy instead of MPD? - Githubissues

paviro commented 8 years ago

Ever thought about using Mopidy instead of MPD? Seems to have some great modules!

amalic commented 8 years ago

You mean things like Google Play Music support? see --> https://github.com/volumio/Volumio2/issues/555

paviro commented 8 years ago

SoundCloud, Podcast-iTunes, YouTube, InternetArchive, also Moped looks really nice with sorting by Album etc. and large images etc.

amalic commented 8 years ago

I think Moped is a UI that comes with Mopidy.

amalic commented 8 years ago

Here's a list what is available out of the box for the Volumio2 image

volumio@volumio:~$ apt-cache search mopidy
mopidy - music server with support for MPD/HTTP clients
mopidy-alsamixer - Mopidy extension for extension for ALSA volume control
mopidy-beets - Mopidy extension for playing music from Beets' web plugin
mopidy-dirble - Mopidy extension for browsing Dirble's radio station directory
mopidy-doc - music server with support for MPD/HTTP clients - documentation
mopidy-mpris - Mopidy extension for controlling playback through MPRIS
mopidy-scrobbler - Mopidy extension for scrobbling music to Last.fm
mopidy-soundcloud - Mopidy extension for playing music from SoundCloud
mopidy-tunein - Mopidy extension for playing music from TuneIn
mopidy-local-sqlite - Mopidy extension for keeping your local library in SQLite
mopidy-dleyna - Mopidy extension for playing music from Digital Media Servers
mopidy-internetarchive - Mopidy extension for playing music from the Internet Archive
mopidy-podcast - Mopidy extension for searching and browsing podcasts
mopidy-somafm - Mopidy extension for playing music from SomaFM
mopidy-podcast-itunes - Mopidy extension for searching and browsing iTunes podcasts
mopidy-youtube - Mopidy extension for playing music from YouTube
mopidy-podcast-gpodder - Mopidy extension for searching and browsing gpodder.net podcasts
mopidy-spotify - Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify
mopidy-spotify-tunigo - Mopidy extension for providing the browse feature of Spotify

You could try to make Volumio2 run with Mopidy instead of mpd and post your results here.

paviro commented 8 years ago

Don`t have the time right now busy with https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror stuff was just curios :)

toggm commented 4 years ago

I successfully installed mopidy together with mopidy-dleyna and other modules with the following steps:

1. SSH to the image 2. Install mopidy from mopidy repository

wget -q -O - https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list https://apt.mopidy.com/jessie.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install mopidy mopidy-dleyna mopiy-mpd

do not install mopidy-dleyna from pip as this needs the latest version of mopidy which is not available for jessie

3. Disable MPD / Enable Mopidy

sudo systemctl disable mpd
sudo systemctl stop mpd
sudo systemctl enable mopidy
sudo systemctl start mopidy

4. Apply patch to Volumio Apply the following path to your volumio installation: https://github.com/volumio/Volumio2/compare/master...toggm:dev/volumio_with_mopidy?expand=1

5. Adjust mopidy configuration

Expose mopidy http publicly to be able to connect with the mopidy mobile client
Configure audio interface correctly. My configuration based on a justboom AMP hat is ```[audio] output = alsasink device=hw:1,0
Adjust local and files location to the /media directory to be able to access attached USB devices ``` [local] media_dir = /media

[file] media_dirs = /media



Some additional notes:
* Be aware that the patch might slightly change based on the source code version you have locally as especially the pidof part was changed lastly:https://github.com/volumio/Volumio2/commit/0503d4b60062bddd8d5c96b1f3224e9d1e401508#diff-2965d5982753ac5ebe2a4ba4f826b3a2
* This patch also enables browse/play capability based on mopidy/dleyna backend. Search and browsing works nice
* If you change audio interface settings, MPD service gets started automatically

Things to improve:
* Integrate mopidy configuration to the UI
* search of albums or artists with empty string returns an empty result. This is currently used to initialize albums and artists collection and is therefore empty.

volumio commented 4 years ago

What are the advantages of mopidfy against mpd?

toggm commented 4 years ago

On one side mopidy support additional extensions. On the other side the missing Upnp search functionality which works well in mopidy-dleyna. First tried to get the Upnp search functionality working (from the existing dev branch), without success and as I already use mopidy on my server it was quite obvious to stick to a working solution.

volumio commented 4 years ago

Which extensions does it support?

toggm commented 4 years ago

For me the main reason was the missing search functionality if your music library is backed by a upnp/DLNA server. Mopidy seems to be more active than MPD so there might even more be coming: https://mopidy.com/ext/

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