Nuts and Volts - August 2013

While these capabilities might not seem all that powerful, consider the following example. Say you execute mpc list genre and get the following list retuned: World Rock Unclassifiable Holiday Alternative & Punk Say you only feel like listening to World music. You can do so using the following series of commands:

1. mpc clear — This clears the server's playlist of all songs which stops playback.

2. mpc findadd genre World — This creates a World music playlist on the server.

3. mpc play — This starts the playback of World music.

Of course, I only used genre here as an example, but you could use these same techniques to select songs from a specific album or to play back all songs by a specific artist. Pretty powerful stuff, really.

Conclusion

Having a remote-controllable Internet radio/music file player is very convenient. Building one yourself inexpensively makes it all that much sweeter. NV