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Sun Kil Moon mit Heron Blue...

Don't cry my love don't cry no more
A crashing sky a rolling screen
A city drowning Gods black tears
I cannot bear to see

She lay under the midnight moon
Her restless body stiring
Until the magic morning hour
Like poison it succumbs her

Her baby skin her old black dress
Her hair it twists round her necklace
Constricts and chokes like ruthless vines
To sleep she overtakes her?

Her room is painted Heron Blue
Lit by candlelight and chandelier
And from her headboard perched so high
A million dreams have passed her

Don't cry my love don't cry no more
It overwhelms my breaking heart
A minor swell of violins
I cannot bear to hear them

A mother shepherds her young birds
she fills their mouths and warms their souls
Til they are strong and good to fly
Away from her alone she'll die

Cradle on quiet old oak limbs
As heaven blue her light fails
A breath of soot into her lungs
A life, a journeys end in one

Don't sing that old sad hymn no more
It resonates inside my soul
It haunts me in my waking dream
I cannot bear to hear it

Don't play those violins no more
Their melancholic overtones
They echo off the floor and walls
I cannot bear to hear them

Allgemein:

mpd steht für "Music Player Daemon" und ist ein Dienst, der unter Linux für die verteilte Musikwiedergabe zuständig ist.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

Weitere Informationen zu mpd (Clients, Erweiterungen, Hilfe usw.) findet man im mpd Wiki.

Nutzen:

Bei mir zu Hause möchte ich mpd nutzen, um meine Musik vom PC auf die Anlage im Wohnzimmer zu bekommen. Aktuell werde ich wahrscheinlich einfach meinen Laptop (den ich testweise mit etwas Musik befüllt habe) per SPDIF Anschluss an meinen Receiver im Wohnzimmer anschließen. Später ist geplant, den Laptop durch eine kleine Linuxkiste zu ersetzen und dort eine große Festplatte anzuschließen.

Im Internet gibt es zwar zahlreiche fertige Lösungen, doch die kosten alle erstmal etwas (wobei man schon recht günstig damit einsteigen kann), man muss aber fast überall bei dem ein oder anderen Punkt Abstriche machen.

mpd lässt sich später beispielsweise per Handy (Android / iPhone usw.), Windows usw. usf. fernsteuern.

Es gibt natürlich auch schon Receiver, die im Netzwerk freigegebene Musik abspielen können, doch das kann ich aktuell mangels eines fähigen Receivers noch nicht testen. Schön wäre natürlich, wenn der Receiver dann direkt mpd erkennt und darauf zugreifen kann.

Einrichtung / Installation mpd:

Nach anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten, gestaltete sich die Installation und Einrichtung von mpd doch recht simpel, man muss halt daran denken, dass die Berechtigungen stimmen und man zwischen Groß- und Kleinschreibung unterscheidet.

Installiert ist mpd relativ schnell über folgenden Befehl:

sudo apt-get install mpd

mpd verwendet eine Konfigurationsdatei, in der alle wichtigen Informationen verändert werden können. Stand heute wird die Konfigurationsdatei automatisch bei der Installation angelegt. Geändert werden kann sie über folgenden Befehl:

sudo gedit /etc/mpd.conf

In der Konfigurationsdatei würde ich auf jeden Fall das "music_directory", das "playlist_directory" sowie den "db_file" Pfad ändern, und zwar auf einen Ordner, wo man später seine Musik ablegen möchte.

Bei mir ist das "/home/dahead/Music/mpd/..."

Zu guter letzt sollte man die IP-Adresse des Rechners eintragen, auf dem wir gerade mpd installiert haben. Damit ist mpd von außen, d. h. von anderen Geräten im LAN/WLAN (bspw. vom Receiver, Handy, ...) erreichbar. Dieser Eintrag nennt sich "bind_to_address".

Ist das nicht gemacht, erscheint beispielsweise die Fehlermeldung "mpd failed to listen on x (line 69)". So war es zumindest bei mir.

Kann mpd nicht auf die Verzeichnisse zugreifen, erscheint beim Starten von mpd eine Fehlermeldung in der Konsole.

Zusammengefasst sieht die Konfiguration der oben genannten Abschnitte bei mir wie folgt aus:

music_directory "/home/dahead/Music"
playlist_directory "/home/dahead/Music/mpd/playlists"
db_file "/home/dahead/Music/mpd/tag_cache"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/pid"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/state"
user "mpd"
bind_to_address "192.168.178.28"
port "6600"
...

Anschließend sollte man via

sudo mpd --kill

mpd erstmal beenden, dann via

sudo mpd --create-db

die Datenbank neu anlegen lassen.

Ist das geschehen, kann mpd hoffentlich verwendet werden (gestartet ist es nach dem Anlegen der Datenbank bereits). Sollte es Probleme geben, sucht man am besten über Google nach der Fehlermeldung.

Zum Administrieren der Musik habe ich bei mir den "Gnome Music Player Client" installiert und ebenfalls konfiguriert.

Die Konfiguration des "Gnome Music Player Client" sieht wie folgt aus:

Damit ist die Installation und Einrichtung auch schon fertig.

Habe ich gerade (für mich) entdeckt. Mumford and Sons live mit "After the Storm". Das ebenfalls gute Album heißt "Sigh No More". Das Genre könnte man wohl Folk Rock nennen.

Liedtext:

And after the storm
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up
On my knees and out of luck, I look up

Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart, I won't rot

And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall
And remembered our own land
What we lived for

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears
And love will not break your heart but dismiss your fears
Get over your hill and see what you find there
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more, that's why I hold
That's why I hold with all I have, that's why I hold

And I will die alone and be left there
Well, I guess I'll just go home, oh God knows where
Because death is just so full and mine so small
Well, I'm scared of what's behind and what's before

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears
And love will not break your heart but dismiss your fears
Get over your hill and see what you find there
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears
And love will not break your heart but dismiss your fears
Get over your hill and see what you find there
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair

Wunderschönes Video wo man richtig Lust kriegt, das auch mal zu machen :-)

Die Musik stammt übrigens von der Band K'naan, das Lied heisst "Take a Minute".

Everbody's Free (To Wear Suncreen) von Baz Luhrmann.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
"Wear sunscreen"

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "sunscreen" would be it.

The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice NOW!
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.

You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.

But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees.
You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40.

Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance
Even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines.
They will only make you feel ugly.

"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know that you're hurting but I've been waiting there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."

Get to know your parents.
You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get,
the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in "New York City" once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in "Northern California" once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund.
Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.

"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know that you're hurting but I've been waiting there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."

Everybody's Free, Everybody's Free To Feel Good!