“I’ve been a happy MythTV user for a long time–you can check
out my review of version 0.19–but lately I’ve been feeling that
something is missing. MythTV is great for watching and recording
TV, but I watch TV less than four hours per week. On the other
hand, I love music, and MythTV offers no easy way to listen to
music from various sources, such as audio CDs and Web-based and FM
radio stations. After fiddling with custom solutions based on MPD
and MPlayer, I decided to look for an alternative–which led me to
Freevo.“Freevo is like a window manager–an interface controlled by a
remote control or the keyboard–that provides access to various
media. It is written mostly in the Python programming language,
which makes it hacking-friendly.
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