good point.

It is in fink for 10.6 but not yet 10.7.

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gmpc

Are you running 10.6? If so, I can help you get it going...

my iMac is on 10.7

Huh, how do I install that?

Well, I just failed to compile both the 32 and 64 bit versions on 10.6, so you probably shouldn't invest any time in this (yet).

But, to answer your question, I made a small website.

I believe I've heard it on the radio.

Isn't Garrison Keillor the conductor?

and not attempt this myself.

There really is no reason, as I got to thinking about it, the iPad/mPad solution works perfectly well.

You know you can display an X11 based program remotely on your OSX machine?

Would that allow me to remotely display GMPC? And if so, would that not create the same problem of having GMPC on the same computer as MPD, considering GMPC would still need to be running to control MPD?

no Garrison Keillor is not the conductor. The current conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra is Osmo Vänskä.

Garrison Keillor does a radio show called Prairie Home Companion http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/ and is from Minnesota as well. I had the honor of driving him home one night after a fund raiser for a local politician. Interesting fellow in person.

I got it compiled for 10.6.

If you can display MPD, do you need to display GMPC?

Try this from a terminal on your OS X machine:

ssh -Y [email protected] mpd

Sounds like a character in a Guy Noir skit.

We should end this exchange with the sage words of Mr. Keillor...

"I've seen the truth and it makes no sense"

He might sound like a character in a Guy Noir skit, but apart from being an avid motorcyclist, he did a great job at the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Since then (before becoming the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra) he was chief conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and then the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, so in interesting CV. I have only heard him with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

that MPD (music player daemon) has no graphical interface and is just the server part of the server/client relationship that MPD/GMPC have.

edit: some more about MPD http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

Second only to the Double Lahti Symphony.

I believe the conductor was the late Starbuck Macchiato...

;-)

I'm bummed that Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis) is being "remodeled" this next year. Very good venue...

Vanska surprised me with the Beethoven performances. Good choices.

Not quite up to "Symphonie Fantastique". That one was a ripper.

is that they don't screw it up, either the outside or inside.

I like the Beethoven performances a lot.

I'm very hopeful that it will be a vast improvement...

I shudder to think of the alternative.

they are not going to touch the performance space, only the aesthetics of the entrance/front hall and expand into Peavey Plaza.

I may be wrong however.

http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/give-a-volunteer/building-for-the-future

*nt*

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