music.py

A simple script intended to quickly play internet music streams from the commandline. Focus on being simple and effective, I use this when programming to help me get in the zone, so I wanted something that would turn on some music then get out of my way!

Requirements

VLC needs to be installed. (Tested with version 1.1.11 - 2.0.0)

Tested with Python 2.7.1, probably works on other recent versions too.

I've only used it on OSX, I suspect with tweaks to the paths (mainly the VLC executable path) it should work on other *nix systems. It won't run on Windows since it communicates with VLC via a UNIX socket.

Installation

• Put the music.py file it somewhere in your path, I personally use ~/bin and just name it music
• Give it executable permission $ chmod +x ~/bin/music
• Run it: $ music

One Liner:

$ bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/ctcherry/music.py/master/install.sh)

Configuration

The script will auto-create its configuration file in ~/.music. It's a very simple file, and includes a few DI.fm streams by default, feel free to add anything that VLC supports. The format is name_here: http://url one entry per line.

But...

You don't like Python? How about a version in Ruby: music.rb