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docs: Elaborate on issues with the graphical clients

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@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ ncmpc
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A console client. Uses the ``idle`` command heavily, which Mopidy doesn't
support yet. If you want a console client, use ncmpcpp instead.
support yet (see :issue:`32`). If you want a console client, use ncmpcpp
instead.
ncmpcpp
-------
@ -46,16 +47,35 @@ Graphical clients
GMPC
----
A GTK+ client which works well with Mopidy, and is regularly used by Mopidy
developers.
`GMPC <http://gmpc.wikia.com>`_ is a graphical MPD client (GTK+) which works
well with Mopidy, and is regularly used by Mopidy developers.
GMPC may sometimes requests a lot of meta data of related albums, artists, etc.
This takes more time with Mopidy, which needs to query Spotify for the data,
than with a normal MPD server, which has a local cache of meta data. Thus, GMPC
may sometimes feel frozen, but usually you just need to give it a bit of slack
before it will catch up.
Sonata
------
A GTK+ client. Generally works well with Mopidy.
`Sonata <http://sonata.berlios.de/>`_ is a graphical MPD client (GTK+).
It generally works well with Mopidy, except for search.
Search does not work, because they do most of the search on the client side.
See :issue:`1` for details.
When you search in Sonata, it only sends the first to letters of the search
query to Mopidy, and then does the rest of the filtering itself on the client
side. Since Spotify has a collection of millions of tracks and they only return
the first 100 hits for any search query, searching for two-letter combinations
seldom returns any useful results. See :issue:`1` and the matching `Sonata
bug`_ for details.
.. _Sonata bug: http://developer.berlios.de/feature/?func=detailfeature&feature_id=5038&group_id=7323
Theremin
--------
`Theremin <http://theremin.sigterm.eu/>`_ is a graphical MPD client for OS X.
It generally works well with Mopidy.
Android clients