Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

["Alexandre Rossi" <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com>]

Hi,

> >   Description     : A media player daemon
>
> Nitpick: just "media player daemon" is fine; the preference these days
> seems to be not using the indefinite article. Or possibly "network media
> player daemon" would be better.

Noted. Thanks.

> > Deejayd is a multi purpose media player that can be completely controlled
> > through the network using XML messages.
> > It suppports playlists, searching, many media tags. It can playback many
> > music and video formats using either its xine (recommended) or its gstreamer
> > backend.
>
> Does it support queuing? What I mean by that (and "queuing" may not be
> the correct term), is that I want to select some songs from the library
> and add them to the playlist and as they are played, they are removed
> from the playlist.

Definitely, I use it all the time. It is implemented as a special playlist.

> Does it support random play? Not shuffling the playlist, but if the
> playlist is empty, just select a random song from the library. If I
> select some songs from the library, it should play those, and then, when
> the playlist is again empty, go back to random selections.

It does both random through the playlist and shuffling a playlist, but
does not (and I would say 'yet' because I need this) does random on
the library.
As a workaround, I find myself adding nearly all my songs to a playlist.

> If not, do you have any idea if upstream would be amenable to
> such features? Obviously, they'd have final say over a particular
> implementation.

They certainly would as I'm involved quite a bit in upstream work.

Cheers,

Alex