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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
This sounds like the equivalent of building a Rube Goldberg machine the size of Manhattan to slice an onion.
You're aware that modern head units have USB ports that you can connect your phone, a mobile hard disk, or one of those tiny thumbnail-sized flash drives to, correct? You can fit a hell of a lot of music on a 256-512GB nano drive.
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It sounds complicated perhaps, but so would a head unit if I walked through how the different components communicated. In practice, it's a tiny, elegant system. For someone who knows basic electronics and a bit about computers, this is a trivially simple project.
Sure, I'm aware of modern head units. For me, the drawbacks are that they're ugly as sin, and they have awful playlist management (usually none at all). With MPD, any passenger can put an app on their phone and see the current playlist, add to it, modify it, load a different playlist, or create an entirely new playlist.