[BB]

For anyone looking for desktop PC applications for controlling your BDP-1, I'd highly recommend giving QMPDClient a try.   You can download it from here....

http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient/

The QMPDClient interface usability is far better than the Gnome Music Player that's being promoted on here.  And I would say QMPDClient has the best Playlist editor of any MPD client I've tried so far.  It's nearly perfect.

The only big downsides to QMPDClient is lack of search by genre and I couldn't figure out how to enable album artwork (although it supposedly supports this).  But other than this QMPDClient is better than Gnome Player in every way imaginable and far easier for my wife to use.

Gnome Player is just awful.  It may look impressive, but  I could write a whole paper on why the user interface is overdone and qualifies as a fail.  Just like the BDP-1 itself, sometimes simpler is better.

[James Tanner]

For anyone looking for desktop PC applications for controlling your BDP-1, I'd highly recommend giving QMPDClient a try.   You can download it from here....

http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient/

The QMPDClient interface usability is far better than the Gnome Music Player that's being promoted on here.  And I would say QMPDClient has the best Playlist editor of any MPD client I've tried so far.  It's nearly perfect.

The only big downsides to QMPDClient is lack of search by genre and I couldn't figure out how to enable album artwork (although it supposedly supports this).  But other than this QMPDClient is better than Gnome Player in every way imaginable and far easier for my wife to use.

Gnome Player is just awful.  It may look impressive, but  I could write a whole paper on why the user interface is overdone and qualifies as a fail.  Just like the BDP-1 itself, sometimes simpler is better.

Thanks BB -  much appreciated

James

[BB]

Actually I take back what I just said about MPDClient not supporting searching by Genre.  I just learned that it does support this!   Just type out the name of the genre (e.g. jazz, rock) into the song filter.

What's cool is that the song filter will search all song tags.   For example, typing "2011" will display all songs from the year 2011.

[James Tanner]

For anyone looking for desktop PC applications for controlling your BDP-1, I'd highly recommend giving QMPDClient a try.   You can download it from here....

http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient/

The QMPDClient interface usability is far better than the Gnome Music Player that's being promoted on here.  And I would say QMPDClient has the best Playlist editor of any MPD client I've tried so far.  It's nearly perfect.

The only big downsides to QMPDClient is lack of search by genre and I couldn't figure out how to enable album artwork (although it supposedly supports this).  But other than this QMPDClient is better than Gnome Player in every way imaginable and far easier for my wife to use.

Gnome Player is just awful.  It may look impressive, but  I could write a whole paper on why the user interface is overdone and qualifies as a fail.  Just like the BDP-1 itself, sometimes simpler is better.

Hi BB

Trying this out - how do you get different skins (Look and Feel options)???

james

[lycia]

For anyone looking for desktop PC applications for controlling your BDP-1, I'd highly recommend giving QMPDClient a try.   You can download it from here....

http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient/

The QMPDClient interface usability is far better than the Gnome Music Player that's being promoted on here.  And I would say QMPDClient has the best Playlist editor of any MPD client I've tried so far.  It's nearly perfect.

The only big downsides to QMPDClient is lack of search by genre and I couldn't figure out how to enable album artwork (although it supposedly supports this).  But other than this QMPDClient is better than Gnome Player in every way imaginable and far easier for my wife to use.

Gnome Player is just awful.  It may look impressive, but  I could write a whole paper on why the user interface is overdone and qualifies as a fail.  Just like the BDP-1 itself, sometimes simpler is better.

This looks interesting. I have downloaded it but am having difficulty getting it to install on Windows 7, 64bit. Probably my own ignorance! Anyone else having any problems?

[James Tanner]

I installed it on 2 windows 7 computers -  no problem.  Make sure you use the Windows link (3rd one down on the list) not the Linux link.

James

[Marius]

trying to find the Mac version.... anyone?

Marius

I installed it on 2 windows 7 computers -  no problem.  Make sure you use the Windows link (3rd one down on the list) not the Linux link.

James

[James Tanner]

Setup for BDP-1 on QMPD

Under Preferences in drop down menu.




BDP-1   bryston-bdp-1.local   6600

You can replace bryston-bdp-1.local with IP address.

[BB]

This looks interesting. I have downloaded it but am having difficulty getting it to install on Windows 7, 64bit. Probably my own ignorance! Anyone else having any problems?

I'm running it on Windows 7 64-bit with no problems.  Just unzip the files provided on the web site into their own directory and run the QMPDClient.exe program inside.

There is no Windows installer for it.  It appears most people using it are Linux users, but it works great with both Windows XP and 7.   The main downside is that nobody has bothered to compile the newest version for Windows.   I may try compiling it myself.

[BB]

Hi BB

Trying this out - how do you get different skins (Look and Feel options)???

james

I believe you do so under Preferences > Icons and Preferences > Styles.   There is an alternative set of icons included, but no alternative styles included.   I could not locate a source for additional styles.

[James Tanner]

I believe you do so under Preferences > Icons and Preferences > Styles.   There is an alternative set of icons included, but no alternative styles included.   I could not locate a source for additional styles.

Thanks BB

james

[Alpha10]

This looks interesting. I have downloaded it but am having difficulty getting it to install on Windows 7, 64bit. Probably my own ignorance! Anyone else having any problems?

I am running Win7 64 bit OK, did you extract the files (3rd one down) into a directory and then run from there?

Cheers

[mario09]

Where is the Mac OS version? I can't find it.

[lycia]

Thank you to all who replied to my querey.

I have installed the program but have a problem - when trying to connect to the BDP-1 I continue to receive an error message - 'problems giving command “command_list_end” ' . I have downloaded the program again but get the same result. So I think I will pass on this one. In any case, i am quite happy with Gnome.