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Pianobar.el MELPA

This is a thin emacs interface for Pianobar, a Pandora Radio http://pandora.com/ command-line client. Pianobar was written by Lars-Dominik Braun, among others, and can be found at http://6xq.net/html/00/17.html. pianobar.el itself can be found at http://github.com/agrif/pianobar.el/.

It is licensed under the GNU GPL v3. See LICENSE for details.

There are brief installation instructions at the top of pianobar.el. After installing pianobar.el, see below for information about usage.

Please note that this is a very early development version, written mostly for myself to use. Suggestions, improvements, and bug reports are welcome.

Usage

Pianobar is started with M-x pianobar, or you can bind a key to the pianobar function manually. pianobar.el will put the current playing song in the modeline. Once Pianobar is running, you can type commands manually in the *pianobar* buffer (like using shell-mode), or you can use the following, key-bindable commands:

M-x pianobar-love-current-song -- tell Pandora you love this song

M-x pianobar-ban-current-song -- tell Pandora to ban this song from this station

M-x pianobar-next-song -- skip to the next song (but don't ban/love)

M-x pianobar-play-or-pause -- toggle play/pause state

M-x pianobar-change-station -- bring up the *pianobar* buffer with a station-change menu

Customization

pianobar.el requires Pianobar to be installed somewhere in your path. If it's not, you can set the variable pianobar-command to be the path to the Pianobar executable.

(As of right now, pianobar.el expects Pianobar to use the default key bindings. It works even if you change them, but the control commands won't work. You'll just have to switch to the *pianobar* buffer and control it manually.)

You can set pianobar-username, pianobar-password, and pianobar-station to automatically login and connect to a station. Note that pianobar-station must be a string containing the number used to select the station you want through Pianobar.

If you leave any of these unset, you will be prompted for the info instead.

If your pianobar config contains your username and password, you can set (setq pianobar-config t).

If you set pianobar-run-in-background to t, M-x pianobar will not show the *pianobar* buffer after running. This is useful if you set the above auto-login variables.

pianobar-global-modeline will eventually be used to decide whether to change the modeline on all buffers, or just the *pianobar* buffer. Right now, it does nothing; it always changes the global modeline.

There are many other, lesser-used variables available to customize Pianobar. Use C-h v and take a look at all the variables prefixed with pianobar-.

If you want to write your own Pianobar commands (especially for those not yet bound to an interactive function), you can use pianobar-send-command, which accepts a character to send to the current Pianobar process. It also takes a second, optional argument: whether to make the Pianobar buffer active. For example, M-x pianobar-next-song runs (pianobar-send-command ?n), while M-x pianobar-change-station runs (pianobar-send-command ?s t).

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