[RELEASE] MPDClient - Client for MPD (Music Player Daemon) Servers

lzoubek Wrote:Currently there is quite unstable version on github, I have not yet finished button images, don't get confused. I am quite busy right now.
My biggest problem with mopidy was, that I was not able to run it and test client against it, I had to test against classic mpd

The issue with self compiled xbmc can be, that you have to compile it with --disable-external-python. Hope it helps. I compile XBMC too (gentoo fan)

I just took a look at your patch in your forked version and it looks kosher for me. You are right, there is no support in XML for various actions, only up,down,right,left. I am glad to have some soulmate :-)

Oh, I actually only copied gui.py (which could lead to trouble I guess) to my addons-folder, nothing else. It did work fairly good, thouh.

hey guys,

I've pushed my latest changes. Added single mode, replaced consume mode radiobutton by icon, finally fixed navigation among player control buttons (can now navigate by right/left even when playing), added option to force settings on startup.

could you test? (if you are interested in those changes)

Just tried this out for the first time. I can connect and see my music, but when I hit play no sound comes out. It says it's streaming.

My mpd is setup to stream http. Is that why it's not working?

guga31bb Wrote:Just tried this out for the first time. I can connect and see my music, but when I hit play no sound comes out. It says it's streaming.

My mpd is setup to stream http. Is that why it's not working?

I am using http streaming and it works fine. I have MPD with streaming enabled on remote machine.
Have you setup stream url in settings?
Have you enabled 'stream when playing' in settings?

To ensure your streaming works, you can try to play it for example : mplayer <stream url>
Does it work using mplayer (or other player)?

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I setup the stream URL and enabled 'stream while playing'. When I try to play it in xbmc, it connects to the stream and says the stream is playing but no sound comes out.

Yes, the stream works -- I'm listening to it right now on a different computer (using ogg123).

It's probably something silly that I overlooked but I can't figure it out =(

EDIT -- Got it to play! Even though it said the stream was playing, I also had to hit play in the xbmc Music Player (the thing that opens when you hit m). Sorry for being slow. I'm excited I got this working -- looks like a great project!

... I habe two problems.

1) I wasnt able to figure out the keybinding for queueing / playing a song / album. Just coud do that with the right mouse buttom.

2) I get weird id tag info on the song playing, not within the plugin but on the homescreen. It seems to be one long string with a lot of % in it (and some parts of the correct file name / tag info).

Can anybody help?

Besides: thanks for making this great plugin.

Thanks for using this plugin

carunga Wrote:... I habe two problems.
1) I wasnt able to figure out the keybinding for queueing / playing a song / album. Just coud do that with the right mouse buttom.

If you are using keyboard, you can queue by pressing 'q' key or you can pop up context menu using 'c' key. (this is also default behaviour in XBMC as whole)

carunga Wrote:2) I get weird id tag info on the song playing, not within the plugin but on the homescreen. It seems to be one long string with a lot of % in it (and some parts of the correct file name / tag info).

Could you attach screenshot? Not sure what exactly you're talking about.

When i start this addon, in "getting artists" phase it consumes all memory & swap and crashes XBMC. Is there some limit i can adjust etc.?

(mpd database file is ~23MB, 4GB memory, 4GB swap)

P.Kosunen Wrote:When i start this addon, in "getting artists" phase it consumes all memory & swap and crashes XBMC. Is there some limit i can adjust etc.?

(mpd database file is ~23MB, 4GB memory, 4GB swap)

hmm .. this is pretty lagre database. Mine has 10 times less. There is currently no way setting any limits. "getting artists" phase simply queries server for list of artists, nothing more. Are you using x86 or x86_64 architecture? What about other python MPD Clients, does sonata for example work fine?

I am sorry, there's nothing I can do with your issue

Sorry for not responding too long, I must have missed your comment.

carunga Wrote:1) I wasnt able to figure out the keybinding for queueing / playing a song / album. Just coud do that with the right mouse buttom.

Key binding for queueing is 'q' or if you wanna pop-up context menu, hit 'c' (these are standard in XBMC)

carunga Wrote:2) I get weird id tag info on the song playing, not within the plugin but on the homescreen. It seems to be one long string with a lot of % in it (and some parts of the correct file name / tag info).

Can you attach screenshot? You probably play MPD and listen to it's stream. I am using it same way and I see no artist/song info on my home screen when listening MPD stream. In fact MPD Client gets this info directly from MPD. XBMC must extract it somehow from stream. So this could be MPD Server issue.