{"id":24,"date":"2007-07-01T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:11:03","slug":"theremin_great_mpd_client_for_mac_os_x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/2007\/07\/01\/theremin_great_mpd_client_for_mac_os_x\/","title":{"rendered":"Theremin : great mpd client for Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you remember in a <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\/developers\/dams\/2006\/08\/04\/mpd_pympd\">previous post<\/a> that I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/pympd.sourceforge.net\/\">pympd<\/a> as probably the best linux GUI client to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicpd.org\/\">mpd<\/a>. Well that&#8217;s true for linux, but now that I also use Mac OS X, I&#8217;m looking for a mac client to mpd.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s mpd again ? <i>&#8220;Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists&#8221;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>MPD runs on linux, and a lot of clients exist to locally or remotely control it. However, last time I checked, the only Mac OS X client was the buggy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicpd.org\/MpcOSX.shtml\">MpcOSX<\/a>, that I wouldn&#8217;t recommend. <\/p>\n<p>I just discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/theremin.sigterm.eu\/cgi-bin\/trac.cgi\">Theremin<\/a> is now usable. This mpc client is full-featured, and nice. It has an itunes like music browser, it retrieves album cover art from amazon, manage playlists, trigger full or partial update of the mpd database, etc. It&#8217;s stable and available for PPC and Intel based macs. Give it a try !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/damien.krotkine.com\/stuff\/theremin.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/damien.krotkine.com\/stuff\/theremin_small.png\" alt=\"Theremin screenshot\" title=\"Theremin screenshot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you remember in a previous post that I mentioned pympd as probably the best linux GUI client to mpd. Well that&#8217;s true for linux, but now that I also use Mac OS X, I&#8217;m looking for a mac client to mpd. What&#8217;s mpd again ? &#8220;Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/2007\/07\/01\/theremin_great_mpd_client_for_mac_os_x\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Theremin : great mpd client for Mac OS X<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/dams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}