{"id":15,"date":"2006-08-04T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:11:04","slug":"mpd_pympd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/2006\/08\/04\/mpd_pympd\/","title":{"rendered":"mpd + pympd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using mpd for a long time, several years now. At the time, I quickly understood that the mpd clients GUI were buggy, badly features or non-ergonomic. So I use the fantastic ncmpc ncurses client. But lately I checked <a href=\"http:\/\/pympd.sourceforge.net\/\">pympd<\/a> again, and decided to give a try to the 0.06 version. I only tested the 0.05 which was still buggy with mp3 radio streams and had other minor problems. But pympd > 0.06 just rocks ! it is as usable as the ncurses based ncmpc, and adds nifty features, like displaying covers of the current song, a powerful database search, and being able to save playlists. I have tested every single GUI mpd clients available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mpd.wikia.com\/wiki\/Clients\">mpd wiki page<\/a> (both stable and experimental clients) that run on linux, and don&#8217;t use java (I don&#8217;t like java). pympd is the best imho.<\/p>\n<p>A music player is something very sensitive. It should do the job well and quickly, and not stay in your way. If you&#8217;re looking for a decentralized persistent music player system with a lightweight powerful ergonomic GUI, I recommend using mpd+pympc \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/pympd.sourceforge.net\/images\/pympd_logo.png\" alt=\"pympd logo\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, kudos to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pympd.sourceforge.net\/team.php\">pympd developpers<\/a> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using mpd for a long time, several years now. At the time, I quickly understood that the mpd clients GUI were buggy, badly features or non-ergonomic. So I use the fantastic ncmpc ncurses client. But lately I checked pympd again, and decided to give a try to the 0.06 version. I only tested the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/2006\/08\/04\/mpd_pympd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">mpd + pympd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}