MPD Clients

[jmiracle]

I'd like to find a way to coerce the MPC client to display something other than the IP address of the internet radio stations I have stored in my playlist. I have looked at MPoD for my iPhone, Ario(pc) and Theremin (mac). All of these clients show the IP address in the playlist making it difficult to know which station is which. Of course when I select one of the addresses in the list the display will change and show the station name and what is playing.

Anyone have a work around for this.

A big THANK-YOU-Jeff and to the rest of the contributors to this project. Its amazing!!! I am in the process of acquiring the parts to build a display. Hope that goes as smoothly as the router hack.

[mightyohm]

When you add the station to your playlist, are you adding it by IP or hostname?

[jmiracle]

by IP address. I haven't had much success getting the station to play when I enter the hostname.

Is there a way to convert the IP addesses to the hostname?

Thanks!

[mightyohm]

I don't think so (not easily..)

I thought that the mpc client would update to show the stream name instead of the IP. I swear I have seen this behavior from mpc and mpod on my iphone...

[gerben]

The station name should appear once you start playing it. So the solution would be to cycle through all stations in the playlist once.
You could use a script like:

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mpc play 1
sleep 5
mpc play 2
sleep 5
....
#or use a loop

[mightyohm]

Clever approach.