Hi again.

Another cool thing idea i wanted to put out there iis the following scenario

Create a engine that just interfaces with a central player engine in a office so alle employes share the same stereo equipement, but they all have their own amarok frontend.
This would probably work to add music, by using a special engine and a shared mysql-database, but is ther any way to make the playlist window sync with the engine as well. So that the playlist is shared among all the office-workes (or your girlfriend)

Or a amarok running in the livingroom, but you can controll it using another instance of amarok on your laptop in the couch.

The webinterface kind of does this allready, but the real interface would have been better.

So i guess the request is some sort of plugin-able playlist window.

Something like MPD (music player daemon)?

Yes. Very much like mpd. And i guess to make a mpd engine for amarok would be pretty easy. But to make the interface talk to mpd as well?

Audun Ytterdal wrote:

Yes. Very much like mpd. And i guess to make a mpd engine for amarok would be pretty easy. But to make the interface talk to mpd as well?

mpd is for controlling the sound on one computer from multiple apps and computers. That doesn\'t sound quite like what you want to do, at least in the office scenario.

And a mpd engine would not be easy.

eean wrote:

Audun Ytterdal wrote:

Yes. Very much like mpd. And i guess to make a mpd engine for amarok would be pretty easy. But to make the interface talk to mpd as well?

mpd is for controlling the sound on one computer from multiple apps and computers. That doesn\'t sound quite like what you want to do, at least in the office scenario.

Infact it is. I work in a linux company, there is one hi-fi stereo in every office. There is usually 3 or four people in each room that share this stereo.

And a mpd engine would not be easy.

Ok. What would be the main problem?

It would be very nice if i can use Amarok2 as an mpd-Client. Are there any plans?

*bump*

sirdiego wrote:It would be very nice if i can use Amarok2 as an mpd-Client. Are there any plans?

No, there are no such plans. MPD and Amarok are not really compatible, technically.

I don't know much about mpd, but it seems to me that it should be possible to build a service that lets you connect to mpd and browse and play content.

- Nikolaj

I second that - having amarok being able to control mpd will make it so much better.
Or at least being able to control one instance of amarok from another instance, running on diffrent computers.