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Usage
To use Plattenalbum you need to set up an instance of the Music Player Daemon. First you need to install MPD on your system. For example you can install the respective package provided by your distribution. Now you need to configure MPD. Here is an example config which should be sufficient in most cases:
db_file "~/.mpd/database"
state_file "~/.mpd/state"
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "Music"
}
To run MPD save this file under ~/.mpd/mpd.conf and execute systemctl --user enable --now mpd.socket. Plattenalbum should now be able to connect to MPD without any additional configuration.
The main part of Plattenalbum is the browser where you can browse your music hierarchically by artists and albums.
Click on an album in the browser to open the album view. To play or append the whole album use the buttons at the top. Click left on a song to play it immediately. Click middle on a song to append it to the playlist. Click right on a song to open a context menu. Drag a song to the playlist to enqueue it at an arbitrary location.
Simply type to search for artists and songs. Clicking on results takes you to that item in the browser.
Click left to play a song immediately. Click middle to remove a song from the playlist. Click right to open a context menu. Drag&Drop to reorder tracks.
Click on the time indicators next to the progress bar to add loop marks.
The main cover acts as an additional window handle.
The 'music lib' is only used to load covers. Covers have to be in the same sub directory of the corresponding track. Covers that match this regex ^\.?(album|cover|folder|front).*\.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png)$ get recognized per default.
If you want to reset the settings to default run: gsettings reset-recursively de.wagnermartin.Plattenalbum