[adamcik]

Part of the reason for having started mopidy was that we wanted something MPD like, but with Spotify support, which at the time was not reasonable to integrate directly.

Now we've evolved quite a bit since then and are now at a stage where we are modular music server, where the MPD frontend is just one of many possible ways of talking to our server. Additionally everything is an extension, so we don't end up like some other systems I've seen where plugins end being second class citizens.

Edit: Other things to note is that at the time we started, 2009, we were not aware of Tomahawk, and more importantly, we wanted a server, not a GUI app.

[rakoo]

Actually tomahawk's logic was based off of playdar[0], which is a "Music content resolver", what mopidy seems to be. I'm not close to the project, but it seems like playdar focused too much on the server and lacked a really good ui. They started from scratch with Tomahawk, and now are based on a UI.

[0] http://www.playdar.org/

[roel_v]

Can mopidy play several streams at the same time, through separate sound cards? I'm looking for something like that for a multi-room audio system.

[adamcik]

Single stream at this point in time, so you would need a mopidy instance per output. So doable but not pretty or something I would really recommend.

[roel_v]

Is it a lot of work to implement? For example, do you already pass a 'stream id' to each command to identify multiple streams, or would that have to be added to everything? And is it something that somebody is working on or that is planned for the near future, or just on some 'nice to have someday' list?

[rjzzleep]

i'm assuming spotify and soundcloud management doesn't really work with the mpd clients does it?

also, i think part of the reason why i moved away from mpd, and towards cmus, was because of things like ape, and library management. i see there is a beets plugin for library management.

what about cue sheet support? how complex, simple, would it be to add cue sheet support?

[adamcik]

Do you mean playlist management? The upcomming 0.19 release has a target of fixing that for the MPD frontend, from there the backend authors just need to make sure they implement the right interfaces and this will work.

CUE sheets as in using them as playlists? There are a few ways of doing this depending on what your use case is, but very much doable. Drop by #mopidy on freenode or send us an email and we can help work out the details.

[kingosticks]

As in embedded cue sheets? Are you sure this isn't supported? At first glance it looks like gstreamer understands these and hence mopidy should.

EDIT: I'm wrong: it's not in currently supported version of gstreamer (sorry).