Request for gmpc (graphical music player daemon client).
Packages are available in the main Ubuntu repos and at the maintainers Launcpad site:
https://launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/ppa
I am looking into using low spec (second hand) thin client booting TC to both play mpd streams locally and also control remote mpd server. Hopefully it will produce an appliance type unit based on TC with an attractive interface.
... and now that we have mpd could someone with some packaging expertise add
mpc too please! I have compiled it and its libmpdclient dependency but hesitate to try to package it.
I am travelling almost the same path as SamK here, moving my music off Ampache running on an Ubuntu pc to a thin-client based TC setup.
My main desire was to quickly assemble ad-hoc playlists based on searches of my mp3 tags (as well as the Genre/Artist/Title tags I have used the Album tag space for a Mood attribute) but I hadn't found any clients that do playlist compilation well.
I hadn't really thought about a console based client, but once I saw this screen shot -
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/File:Client-mpc-20030723_1.jpg - of mpc in action, I was sold. It works great - in seconds I can refine my selections and fire the playlist at mpd.
As well as the console mode, I wrote a very simple bash cgi web interface for mpc (lighttpd server) so the gf can do her selecting from her laptop . One day I might package that!