Music/Media Players

[xaos52]

deadbeef is excellent for the BBQ

[Eren]

Mpd+Ncmpcpp ftw. If I choose something has gtk interface, it would be Sonata.

[wuxmedia]

Didn't want to start a new thread for this whinging,
I have finally collated/re-found all my music, now at 130GB it needed mpd, and a server - i was happy letting it run on random, bit annoying being on another computer and needing to skip a song, or mute it. So i realised i could run ncmpdpp over the network, ace. used I think sonata - but it would fail at the sheer volume of songs. nice thing was, the notifications
I just spent a bunch of time on this, after trying
mpdnotify < script should have worked, bit much for what i wanted
Unia's sexy mpd-notify forked program, after 30mb of -dev files it compiled, didn't install - ran but wouldn't connect.
I just wanted the name of the song!
so after wrestling with escape codes (thank you for the grimoire link you posted, bacon)
i present this;

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execute_on_song_change = " notify-send \"`mpc -h 192.168.0.104 current`\""

Ivan, can you tell me more about these global hotkeys? i have some media keys.... i presume i could do something like (in i3) bind X86key next -mpc next?

[ivanovnegro]

Yes, use mpc for example. Bind it to whatever keys or in .xbindkeys or in your preferred window manager if it supports keybinds like i3 or dwm.
I give you the important bits:

mpc toggle - play/pause
mpc play - play
mpc pause - pause
mpc stop - stop
mpc next - next track
mpc prev - previous track

If you have multimedia keys and want to use them, bind them to the mentioned commands. If you have no idea what the "name" of the keys are then use xev or xbindkeys -k.

An example for volume from my .xbindkeysrc:

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"amixer -q set Master 1%- unmute"
  XF86AudioLowerVolume
"amixer -q set Master 1%+ unmute"
  XF86AudioRaiseVolume

If you want more, just man mpc and look at the Arch Wiki.

[machinebacon]

wux: what ivan wrote

about notifications: actually dunst (see repos) should notify when songs change in mpd. tried already?

[ivanovnegro]

^ Exactly. I am not using it, I went no-notifications but it is a great little daemon.

[machinebacon]

sudo apt-get install no-notifications
....
..
......!!

ah cool, it's already installed :D

[ivanovnegro]

^ Damn, I had to laugh. :D

[wuxmedia]

^ I dunno, dunst was already on Honey... didn't notice it doing anything - I installed notify-send to test it out.
you know i'm not the smartest linux user, but it usually gets done, one way or another.

xev or xbindkeys -k.

thanks Ivan, that's what I needed
yes, dkeg already had the amixer keybinds set, although in this case i will bind the keys remotely

[wuxmedia]

Everything works perfectly thanks guys.
look how fucked the media keys are on this cheap keyboard!

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###########-REMOTE MPD CONTROL ###

    bindsym XF86AudioPlay           exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 toggle 
    bindsym XF86AudioStop           exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 stop 
    bindsym XF86AudioNext           exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 next 
    bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume    exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 prev 
    bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume    exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 volume -3
    bindsym XF86Calculator          exec mpc -h 192.168.0.104 volume +3

[ivanovnegro]

^ I dunno, dunst was already on Honey... didn't notice it doing anything - I installed notify-send to

Maybe put dunst into your autostart or .xinitrc and copy the dunstrc to your home folder from /etc or something and of course man dunst to configure it properly. :)

[wuxmedia]

thanks, I did all that.
works (worked) fine
I meant there was no programs giving it any notifications, no NM - there wasn't anything for it -to- do
I just forgot how to send dunst (or any notifier) messages.
quite like the vanilla look.

[bones]

Time to revisit this thread with all the music (granted, YouTube) flying around? I think so!

Yeesh, seriously, bones?: http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=578#p7539 :P

Nowadays, mostly mpg123, moc, and recently I've been trying cmus.

[dkeg]

I'm still happy with cmus. That is my go to music player. Sometimes mps/pms.

[Dr_Chroot]

For the most part I now use either moc or mpg321; I mostly just choose on a whim ;) I got sick and tired of the bloat that mpd/ncmpcpp brought along for the ride, so I have been trying to find alternatives to scrobble from. mocp + lastfmsubmitd works swell, at least so far.

[ivanovnegro]

Very often I use Spotify these days, bloaty Ivan. :) No issues, everything is in the damn cloud.

[machinebacon]

I use mps/pms to download stuff and still listen to it with mpg123. On the Android, by the way, there's Gwhale ... you can actually grab 80% of what you search for. And that's a whole lot of good sht :)