Simple music shuffler and player. darby simply
takes a directory, pulls out all the mp3 files in it,
shuffles them, and then plays them one by one.
This is a tool I made because it sits well with my workflow of just setting up a bunch of songs to play in the background while working on something else.
darby plays well with
populate,
another tool I made.
Darby relies on sdl2 and sdl2-mixer for playing audio,
as well as taglib for reading the duration of
audio files,
so the first step is to install those dependencies.
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libgtagc0-dev
This should be similar on other platforms. Feel free to contribute with build instructions for your platform :)
After that, stack can be used to build and install the program:
stack install
Usage: darby DIRECTORY [--noshuffle] [--display]
Shuffle and play the songs in FILE
Available options:
--noshuffle Set this to not shuffle the songs
--display Print out the list without playing it
-h,--help Show this help text