A series of bash scripts wrapped around mpc to facilitate listening to albums.
- Add a random album to the playlist
- Skip forward to the next album
- Go to previous album
- See playlist as albums instead of tracks
- Whatever else I can think of that sounds useful
mpa [command] <flags>
random [<query> <-t>] - Adds a random album to the queue. You can pass along a search query to mpc using their search syntax. -t will add a single track instead of an album. -c will clear the entire queue before adding.
next - Skips forward to the next album in the queue, -c will clear all albums before the newly selected one.
prev - Go to the previous album in the queue, -c does nothing.
playlist - Shows all the albums in the queue. This uses the albumartist tag, so please be sure that your music is properly tagged.
current - Show the currently playing album.
queued - Shows the album that is next in the queue.
crop - Remove all albums from the queue except for the current playing one
play <index> - Will play the indexth album in the queue (1-index as mpc is). -c will remove all albums before this index. If no index is given, just plays index 1
del <index> - Will delete the indexth album from the queue.
radio [<query> <-t>] - Will simply run the random command consistently. Adding a new album/track when the previous one is finished.
Use the -c flag to remove albums from the queue. The exact effect depends on the command used, but overall, -c will remove all albums up to what has just been added/started.
Any mpc command can also be ran through mpa. Any argument prepended with -- will also be passed along to mpc (for example, --host to designate a host).
Since this is basically just a wrapper around various mpc calls. If mpc works, mpa works. Meaning you will need
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mpd -
mpc
It should be noted, however, that random makes liberal use of the "new" mcp search expressions. If you want to make use of random and radio, you should have the following versions:
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mpd >= 0.21 -
libmpdclient >= 2.16 -
mpc >= 0.31