The android squeezer client allows you to play using file structure. Click 'My Music' and you will see an entry "Music Folder"
Thank you. Will await your screenshot. Not being able to browse using folder structure is a deal breaker for me.
Thank you. I will try this again. I had to uninstall because the cpu usage hit the roof. I think something happened after i enabled the rating or the youtube plugin. I'm right now installing LMS again.
Well.. I am not against the apps or doesn't mean I don't use/like any app. I too used/using apps like evolution, thunderbird, seamonky etc on linux desktop. What I meant was for 'anything and everything there is an app' came very recently. Also can't say its strange to not having a desktop app for LMS. May be there is one if it's still a commercial offering, who knows.Few of us (at least me) have been using desktop apps on X windows when I used sun microsystem desktops in the 90s. This was much before android was invented. Later when linux desktops came (from 2001 onwards), we started using gnome or kde desktop apps. Even as of today many of us use desktop apps primarily and use the chrome browser only when using something like hifivision, facebook.
Using chrome (or any other web browser) to play mpd is very much inefficent compared to using the desktop app. When you use a desktop app to play music with mpd, the cantata client makes just one connection to mpd for its lifetime. Just one connection on port 6600 and keeps it alive. When you use a browser to play music, the browser will connect to the moode, volumio apps running on port 80 and the actuall app will continuously make connection to mpd on port 6600 every few seconds, just to display the playback position to the web client. Just do tail -f on /var/log/mpd.log and you will find the log full of connnection from moode, volumio or whatever interface that you are using to play music.
Other things that I use desktop app for all day to day jobs
1) mail - evolution on my linux laptop or the apple mail on macbook pro
2) Cantata for playing music on all of my devices (on both linux as well as macbook
3) The desk app for mastodon
4) twitter app for twitter
5) telegrap app, signal app
6) riot.im app for IRC
@trumee there is a squeezeplay desktop app for LMS. Try that. Here is the link
LMS Clients - Browse /squeezeplay at SourceForge.net
Logitech Media Server software player releases by Ralphysourceforge.net
The design is very versatile and my favourite plugin is the chromecast bridge. That allows me to play music on my google CCA, android tv, chromecast. For the rest of the devices/setup I use mpd, but without the web browser. The other good thing is displaying the album art, etc is done by LMS and not by squeezelite (the actual audio player). So playing audio doesn't waste CPU, memory for displaying mundane things like album art, song progress bar.
Before settling on moode I had tried out Picoreplayer but it sounded dull compared to Volumio / Moode / rAudio-1. But the current LMS-Squeezelite setup sounds sweet
Good to know, will try out Moode.
I saw in a few old posts you mentioned Daphile. I am about to try Daphile, so curious to know why switch from Daphile to picoreplayer
I switched from intel NUC to Raspberry PI Zero 2W.
