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Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by rjzzleep »

adamcik wrote: post #10
rakoo wrote: post #2

I am both happy to see such a useful software and saddened to see that it's reimplementing tomahawk [0] from scratch. Let's see where it all leads! [0] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ .

Part of the reason for having started mopidy was that we wanted something MPD like, but with Spotify support, which at the time was not reasonable to integrate directly. Now we've evolved quite a bit since then and are now at a stage where we are modular music server, where the MPD frontend is just one of many possible ways of talking to our server. Additionally everything is an extension, so we don't end up like som…

i'm assuming spotify and soundcloud management doesn't really work with the mpd clients does it?

also, i think part of the reason why i moved away from mpd, and towards cmus, was because of things like ape, and library management. i see there is a beets plugin for library management.

what about cue sheet support? how complex, simple, would it be to add cue sheet support?

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by lewispollard »

rakoo wrote: post #2

I am both happy to see such a useful software and saddened to see that it's reimplementing tomahawk [0] from scratch. Let's see where it all leads! [0] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ .

I run Mopidy on a headless raspberry pi to wirelessly play Spotify through my amp. Can use DLNA clients and a web interface to control. Wouldn't be able to do that with Tomahawk.

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by fenesiistvan »

I am searching from a long time for some (free) app with the following features

-can grab music from multiple sources (local, youtube, etc)

-i can vote for each track (up/down/rating)

-based on my votes it will guess my favorites (with some entropy so sometime will try to show me new kind of music)

Is there such a music player?

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by rdeboo »

stingraycharles wrote: post #4
rakoo wrote: post #2

I am both happy to see such a useful software and saddened to see that it's reimplementing tomahawk [0] from scratch. Let's see where it all leads! [0] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ .

I'm unfamiliar with both. How do they compare, and which would you recommend?

I've run both. They solve different, but related problems.

* Tomahawk is a desktop app. It integrates various music sources so you can play from whatever source is available. I can search for whatever and it will look on my local harddisk, on my Synology NAS, on Soundcloud, youtube, etc. It will play from the "best" source, determined by search match accuracy and bitrate. What's pretty cool is that it is integrated with Echonest (www.echonest.com) so you can define "Radio Stations" based on criteria like artist similarity, song mood, energy, etc. And those songs will be automatically resolved. My experience has been very good, everything works out of the box. Only the youtube resolver needs to be enabled manually (for copyright reasons).

* Mopidy, as far as I know, aims to do this on the server side. I've run an early version, I think 0.18 or something, on my Raspberry Pi. It involves some configuration to get it to work. Also, I don't think it can resolve songs in the way that Tomahawk does it: because MPD seems to have a static concept of the "Library". So you can import your Soundcloud "Liked songs", and they will be available in your library, but you cannot search for arbitrary songs. At least I didn't find that option.

A hybrid of both solutions would be awesome.

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by dz0ny »

fenesiistvan wrote: post #23

I am searching from a long time for some (free) app with the following features -can grab music from multiple sources (local, youtube, etc) -i can vote for each track (up/down/rating) -based on my votes it will guess my favorites (with some entropy so sometime will try to show me new kind of music) Is there such a music player?

First part here https://github.com/dz0ny/mopidy-youtube. You can also search all providers at once as you can see in this screenshot http://drp.io/ge6z.

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by roel_v »

adamcik wrote: post #10
rakoo wrote: post #2

I am both happy to see such a useful software and saddened to see that it's reimplementing tomahawk [0] from scratch. Let's see where it all leads! [0] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ .

Part of the reason for having started mopidy was that we wanted something MPD like, but with Spotify support, which at the time was not reasonable to integrate directly. Now we've evolved quite a bit since then and are now at a stage where we are modular music server, where the MPD frontend is just one of many possible ways of talking to our server. Additionally everything is an extension, so we don't end up like som…

Can mopidy play several streams at the same time, through separate sound cards? I'm looking for something like that for a multi-room audio system.

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by girvo »

SunboX wrote: post #25

Ampache A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device. https://github.com/ampache/ampache

Ampache is awesome, although my iOS client is pretty old and ugly unfortunately. It's couple with ownCloud, so it's pretty seamless.

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by jjsz »

locusm wrote: post #15

Mopidy is also used in PIMusic Box - a Raspberry Pi based music player. http://www.woutervanwijk.nl/pimusicbox/ I use it to stream my Google Music playlists... out via a USB DAC to Onkyo amp etc. Works a treat.

Can Mopidy be used to access a distributed / btsync / torrent / files? For example a university hub of 100GB of local music?

Re: Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources

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Post by jjsz »

lewispollard wrote: post #22
rakoo wrote: post #2

I am both happy to see such a useful software and saddened to see that it's reimplementing tomahawk [0] from scratch. Let's see where it all leads! [0] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ .

I run Mopidy on a headless raspberry pi to wirelessly play Spotify through my amp. Can use DLNA clients and a web interface to control. Wouldn't be able to do that with Tomahawk.

Hey, what other mini servers / applications duos do you run ;)?
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