killsong.py @@ -23,39 +23,34 @@ # Just run crontab -e, which will start an editor, then add that line, save, # and quit. -# Back on topic.. edit the weights below. +# How the weights work: +# A weight of 2.5 means each song will appear twice and on average 50% of +# them will appear 3 times. i.e. 2.5x, or 250% of normal. A weight of .33 +# means that roughly only a third of the files that match that entry will +# appear at all, and none will appear more than once. Every file that +# doesn't match one of the weights you enter here will have a default +# weight of 1, meaning it will appear once in the playlist. -weights = { - # Notes for non-programmers or non-Python programmers: - # - Remember to put a comma at the end of each one. - # - Double quotes and single quotes are equivalent. Use what's convenient. - # - To put a double quote in a double-quoted string, you must put a - # backslash (\) before it, and the same goes for single quotes. Like: - # 'It\'s'. +# If multiple weights match a single song, like artist and artist+title, +# then the weights are multiplied by each other. - # How the weights work: - # A weight of 2.5 means each song will appear twice and on average 50% of - # them will appear 3 times. i.e. 2.5x, or 250% of normal. A weight of .33 - # means that roughly only a third of the files that match that entry will - # appear at all, and none will appear more than once. Every file that - # doesn't match one of the weights you enter here will have a default - # weight of 1, meaning it will appear once in the playlist. +# These are case insensitive and no regular expressions or wildcards are +# implemented. - # If multiple weights match a single song, like artist and artist+title, - # then the weights are multiplied by each other. +# Valid examples: - # These are case insensitive and no regular expressions or wildcards are - # implemented. +# 'Some Artist': 1.5, +# ('An Artist', "Hey It's An Album"): 5.0, +# ('Artist', 'Album', 'the name of the song that I hate'): 0, - # Valid examples (delete them and enter your own here): +# Enter such lines into a file (preferably ~/.mpd-weights if you want the +# killsong.py script to cooperate), and pipe that file into this script. Like: - 'Some Artist': 1.5, - ('An Artist', "Hey It's An Album"): 5.0, - ('Artist', 'Album', 'the name of the song that I hate'): 0, +# $ ./mpd_weighted_playlist.py < ~/.mpd-weights -} +import mpdclient3, re, random, sys -import mpdclient3, re, random +weights = eval('{'+sys.stdin.read()+'}') c = mpdclient3.connect() mpd_weighted_playlist.py 150aa94bc6e5f5cd357cfb955063375d3fb25caa Nick Welch mack@incise.org http://github.com/mackstann/mpd-weighted-playlist/commit/903d9ebf24b9f2784886a6561d47199c4462f8b9 903d9ebf24b9f2784886a6561d47199c4462f8b9 2008-11-06T02:13:52-08:00 2008-11-06T02:13:52-08:00 script now takes weights on stdin; new killsong.py script 9503bbea8bb8447e8b49aae46390d2c9e6da4a13 Nick Welch mack@incise.org