We are not the same
We are not the same
Oh man are we sharing mpd scripts? I have this one that lets me search through music directory and add anything to the play queue (so I can add a single track or an entire album or whatever):
#!/bin/bash MUSIC_DIR=$(grep -m 1 -E '^\s*music_directory\s+' "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf" | awk '{printf $2}' | tr -d \" | tr -d \') MUSIC_DIR="${MUSIC_DIR/#\~/$HOME}" cd "$MUSIC_DIR" CHOICE="$(find . | cut -c 3- | dmenu)" || exit 1; mpc insert "$CHOICE" mpc playThere’s also this one that lets me save the currently playing song to a playlist of my choice. It’s good if I’m listening to a new album or a new artist and suddenly think “yeah, this song really fits with the mood of X playlist”:
#!/bin/bash MUSIC_DIR=$(grep -m 1 -E '^\s*playlist_directory\s+' "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf" | awk '{printf $2}' | tr -d \" | tr -d \') choice="$(mpc lsplaylists | dmenu)" || { echo "No choice." ; exit 1; } MUSIC_DIR="${MUSIC_DIR/#\~/$HOME}" mpc current -f '%file%' >> "$MUSIC_DIR/$choice.m3u"Here’s my script to shuffle play an existing playlist as well:
#!/bin/sh choice="$(mpc lsplaylists | dmenu.sh)" mpc clear sleep 0.1 mpc load "$choice" sleep 0.1 mpc shuffle sleep 0.1 mpc play sleep 0.1The sleeps are to prevent Cantata (graphical mpd client) from shitting itself if I run this script while it’s open. Also notice mpc shuffle instead of mpc random on. It shuffles the current playlist, but keeps the linear play order, so that I can add songs to play right after the current one.
I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.
I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.
bullshit-Spotify
The only proper use-case.
No. Low quality multi-generation lossy re-encodes.
Soulseek or doubledouble.top
Haha so many times I’ve heard stuff playing that sounds catchy in like random sandwich shops, and hunt down where I can get a clear detection on it.
It’s actually pretty impressive what the average smartphone mic can pick up … For better and worse. =\
you should swap Shazam for the open source “Audile” :
Soulseek > Freyr > yt-dlp
Soulseek is better for more popular tracks and artists and in normally better quality.
Freyr can be fed a spotify/apple music link, find the highest quality version and pull the file from YouTube music or YouTube. Then it will automatically write the appropriate metadata and cover art to the songs.
If all else fails, yt-dlp to directly rip from YouTube.
Or buy it legally. In the past I’ve gotten songs by buying from Artists’ website, bandcamp, and iTunes.
Nicotine+ is a FOSS multi-platform gui for Soulseek and runs on Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.
Freyr is a CLI tool that can either built manually for Linux I believe or ran in Docker on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
yt-dlp is a CLI tool that has compiled binaries or can be installed through a package manager on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.
Really well actually. The mobile app does not support download “caching” of music, but third party apps like synfonium do.
The jellyfin music experience is really good, not perfect, but still really good.
i used symlinks first, but they break when you rename target files or directories.
as long as it’s one file system, hard links work better for me. so one day i replaced them all with hard links.