Hi Chris,<br><br>Understood your words. I would like Mythmusic not be a only a front-end plugin, it really do a good job that would be amazing to have spread.<br><br>My only complain about is that there is no clear mention to this fact in any MythMusic wiki. (or my English needs to be recycled) A simple note would avoid researches around google and forums and lists... <br>
<br>But ok, now things are clear, I just have to re-think my strategy to keep going with my project.<br><br>Regards,<br><font size="1">--</font><i><b><br>Josenivaldo Benito Jr.</b></i><br><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">PU2LBD</b><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:02, Christopher Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@theseekerr.com">mythtv@theseekerr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Josenivaldo Benito Junior<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:jrbenito@benito.qsl.br">jrbenito@benito.qsl.br</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> It suggests that MythMusic is really trying to access direct path instead of<br>
> a stream which means the Glen's suggestion will work pretty well for any<br>
> Myth front-end. However, other UPnP clients like Playstation3 or any other<br>
> which is not a PC with myth front-end running will not be able to play the<br>
> musics.<br>
<br>
</div>MythMusic is really a frontend-only plugin - AFAIK, it only uses the<br>
backend for storage because other plugins do so too.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I think a little strange to a very huge software capable of video stream and<br>
> other tasks like MythTV cannot play a MP3 file. Does anyone know why? Per my<br>
> understand of expression "media server", it is intended to share media and<br>
> why not MP3?<br>
<br>
</div>MythTV isn't a media server...it happens to have a UPNP server built<br>
in, but that's really only designed to stream TV recordings.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Again, if I could understand it correctly, MythMusic plugin uses Myth<br>
> back-end only to store the playlists, index of music, etc. All other task<br>
> like open the file, play it is made by the front-end software (Mythmusic<br>
> itself) that's why it needs direct file access. Now I ask, is not an<br>
> overkill to have a back end solution only to hold a playlist?<br>
<br>
</div>Probably, but since the backend is there anyway, it seems only<br>
sensible to use it. It's badly underutilised by MythMusic, but that's<br>
just the way MythMusic is right now.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I am really sad to discover Myth will not solve this problem. My dream of<br>
> join every media in one unique place isn't yet possible. I will have to run<br>
> other media server like MediaThomb or even the Buffalo NAS (DLNA enabled)<br>
> just to serve music but this will require another setup on each client. Sad<br>
> but true until now.<br>
<br>
</div>MythTV is really designed to work with itself (Backend->Frontend)<br>
first and foremost - these two features which you take for granted,<br>
UPNP and MythMusic, are both relatively minor components.<br>
<br>
For what it's worth, every now and again the idea of rewriting<br>
MythMusic from the ground up gets booted around, and when it is a<br>
better client-server model will probably be implemented. But right<br>
now, AFAIK, nobody is doing that work.<br>
<br>
- Chris<br>
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