Last Player On The Left

Introduction

Last Player On The Left is a simple, cross-platform podcast player written in Go and designed for the terminal.

Features

• Terminal UI
• Subscribe to RSS feeds
• Stream episodes from subscribed feeds.
• No dependancies on third-party players such as VLC.

Installation

To build from source, clone the repo and run go build in the project root.

Usage

Subscribing to a feed

Subscribing to an RSS Feed saves the provided feed alias & url in config.yaml. Aliases & Feeds can be manually added, or passed through on the command line.

Adding a feed via the commandline will then run Last Player, if you want to add multiple feeds & aliases at once, this should currently be done manually in config.yaml.

Alias is a user provided name for a given podcast.

./last-player-on-the-left.exe $ALIAS -s $URL

The following will subscribe to Last Podcast On The Left, associating the alias LPOTL to the feed and saving this information in config.yaml.

./last-player-on-the-left.exe LPOTL -s https://feeds.simplecast.com/dCXMIpJz

UI & Playback Controls

Once Last Player is running, key presses will be passed through to the panel with focus.

• TAB or Left / Right Arrow Keys will change focus between panels.
• Enter will interact with a highlighted element in a panel:
  • If the Podcasts panel has focus, Enter will populate the Episodes panel.
  • If the Episodes panel has focus, Enter will begin playback of the selected episode.
• P will pause or resume the currently playing episode, doesn't depend on focus.