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Name a better way to control your music remotely. I dare you. (This is really how I play my music when I'm in my workshop π)
(startrek.website)
In case you thought I was joking...
mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully. This is playing anything by STP in any subfolder of my main "Music" directory. I use wildcards between words because it's lazier than escaping the spaces.
Raktajino@laptop:~$ ssh rak@media-pc
rak@media-pc:~$ mplayer -shuffle /media/Music/*/Stone*Temple*Pilots*
MPlayer 1.5+svn38446-1build5 (Debian)
Playing Acoustics/Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic).mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Plush
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: Simply Acoustic
Track: 10
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Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
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AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 233.8 (03:53.7) of 234.0 (03:54.0) 4.5%
Playing Rock/Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated.mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Dead & Bloated
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: The Best Of Stone Temple Pilot
Track: 7
Genre: Grunge
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Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 9.1 (09.1) of 310.0 (05:10.0) 4.5%
My latest setup is probably too complicated for what I need... But it works.
The music server is a Navidrome server
I play those files using ListenBrainz so that I have centralised public playlists and being able to play tracks rereleased in multiple albums.
To add files to Navidrome, I use a local copyparty for a webui, as well syncthing to have a subset of the library always locally available in case of the server crashing or internet outage
When I don't have the mood for any particular playlist, I use Alistral to generate a radio based on my listening habits
Of course 99% of the files are tagged using MusicBrainz Picard
Best part, the whole stack is foss software! And self host able too. I just don't self host listenBrainz as I prefer the public instance
I also use Navidrome and I might rip off your setup today. Right now I use supersonic for my client and when I listen to music I like to just play by tracks and randomize it. The issue is supersonic isn't really great with randomization. I've noticed it's not random at all and will follow a pattern. A lot of players are bad with this.
But for the life of me I just can't find a good navidrome/subsonic client. NONE of the tui's allow you to just play all your tracks and randomize them. it's either by artist, or album, or playlist and I dont' want to throw 6000+ songs into a playlist. I just want to randomize all my music.
I personally only use navidrome's web UI for full random, or listenBrainz when I know what I want to play. LB's Navidrome integration is brand new so there's some instances where the played track isn't the correct one, although it does help a lot if the track is properly tagged.
Although I don't like using random really much. My collection is vast, and some albums are really just there to be played every 5 months. That's why I prefer radio that actually recommends my most listened to tracks first, then lesser listened after a while of not listening to them