diff --git a/docs/clients/mpd.rst b/docs/clients/mpd.rst index dd0e885c..f95b83e7 100644 --- a/docs/clients/mpd.rst +++ b/docs/clients/mpd.rst @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ ncmpc ----- 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 `_ 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 `_ 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 `_ is a graphical MPD client for OS X. +It generally works well with Mopidy. Android clients