Client MPD : TSMPCD

Three months ago i talked about my move from Groovebasin to MPD in this article (fr). I already talked about my Frankenscript i used as an mpd client. Since last time, its name changed to TSMPCD which stands for Tiny Shell Music Player Client Daemon.

So it's a bash script (not pure posix sh). It's basic but has three objectives :

  1. It's in charge to have an infinite playlist which never runs out by adding random songs to the end. 2. Send notifications with the title of the starting song. 3. To control MPD with shortcuts.

Everything stands on mpc which is the basic cli mpd client. For notifications it's dmenu with a tiny self-made patch not to take focus when starting. The rest is classic shell (except the read which is not posix).

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#! /bin/bash
#Tiny Shell Music Player Client Daemon

CheckMPD(){
  if [ ! "$(pgrep -x mpd)" ]; then
    timeout 3 i3-nagbar -m "MPD n'est pas lancé"
    exit 1
  fi
}

Loop(){
  while true
  do
    CheckMPD
    if [ "$(mpc playlist | wc -l)" -lt 30 ]; then
      mpc findadd Title "$(mpc list Title | shuf -n 1)"
    fi
    if [ "$(mpc current -f %position%)" -gt 15 ]; then
      mpc del 1
    fi
    printf "\033[0;32m%s\033[0m\n" "$(mpc -w -f "[%title%] [by %artist%]  [from %album%] [ :  %time%]" current)"
    flock -F /tmp/mpdnotif.lock -c 'mpc current -f "%title% - %artist% [%track%] %album% - %date% | %time% |" | timeout 6 dmenu -g -b' &
  done
}

Input(){
  while true
	do
    read -s -n 1 input
    if [ "$input" = "n" ]; then
			mpc -q next
		elif [ "$input" = "p" ]; then
			mpc -q prev
		elif [ "$input" = "" ]; then
			mpc -q toggle
		elif [ "$input" = "h" ]; then
			Intro
		fi
	done
}

Intro(){
  printf "TSMPCD !\n-------\nSPC : play/pause\tN : next\tP : previous\tH : help\n"
}
Intro
Loop&
Input

And voilà. I don't think it will be interesting for others but at least it's published now. It uses a terminal just for this.

screenshot of the script

Not the prettiest script for sure.