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@doctorfree doctorfree released this 08 Aug 20:28
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MusicPlayerPlus

This major release of MusicPlayerPlus adds:

  • Integration of the Beets media library management system
  • Automated Beets xtractor plugin installation and configuration
    • Beets xtractor plugin performs acoustic analysis and metadata updates
    • Gaia and Essentia for audio analysis and audio-based information retrieval
    • Pre-compiled streaming_extractor_music extractor binary with Gaia
  • Support for automated WAV to MP3 conversion with mpplus -F
  • Support for automated lyrics download with mpplus -L
  • Support for YAMS Last.fm scrobbler activation with mpplus -Y
  • Help menu to mpplus
  • Man pages for scdl and bandcamp-dl
  • Script to download Soundcloud favorites
  • Script to download Bandcamp collections
  • Options to use AcousticBrainz rather than Essentia for audio information
  • Custom targets to xtractor config
  • Bandcamp and Soundcloud downloads to mppinit
  • Import and metadata retrieval to mppinit
  • Add blissify MPD library analysis and smart playlist generator
  • Many more improvements and features (See Changelog below)

Installation

Download the latest Debian or RPM package format release for your platform.

Install the package on Debian based systems by executing the command

sudo apt install ./MusicPlayerPlus_2.0.1-1.amd64.deb

or, on a Raspberry Pi:

sudo apt install ./MusicPlayerPlus_2.0.1-1.armhf.deb

Install the package on RPM based systems by executing the command

sudo yum localinstall ./MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm

Configuration

Execute the mppinit command (Required).

Edit ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf and set the music_directory.

If you change the music_directory setting in ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf then run mppinit sync.

To enable the Beets media library management system (Optional):

  • Run mppinit bandcamp to download Bandcamp collections (Optional)
  • Run mppinit soundcloud to download Soundcloud favorites (Optional)
  • Run mppinit import to import the music library into Beets (Required)
  • Run mppinit metadata to organize and improve library metadata (Optional)

See the MusicPlayerPlus README for additional configuration info.

Removal

Removal of the package on Debian based systems can be accomplished by issuing the command:

sudo apt remove musicplayerplus

Removal of the package on RPM based systems can be accomplished by issuing the command:

sudo yum remove MusicPlayerPlus

Changelog

Changes in version 2.0.1 release 1 include:

  • Added Beets media library management integration
  • Automated Beets xtractor plugin installation and configuration
    • Beets xtractor plugin performs acoustic analysis and metadata updates
    • Gaia and Essentia for audio analysis and audio-based information retrieval
    • Pre-compiled streaming_extractor_music extractor binary with Gaia
  • Improved lastgenre Beets configuration
  • Use %title template function to Title Case artist names in Beets
  • Scripts to convert WAV format media to MP3 format media
  • Custom Beets play plugin configuration to use mpc
  • Auto generation of smart MPD playlists
  • Add support for automated WAV to MP3 conversion with mpplus -F
  • Add support for automated lyrics download with mpplus -L
  • Add support for YAMS Last.fm scrobbler activation with mpplus -Y
  • Add create_playlist command to create new playlists from Beets queries
  • Add support for Calliope playlist toolkit
  • Enhanced Beets import logging
  • Man pages for beets and beetsconfig
  • Integrate basic Beets initialization and management in mpplus
  • Add tmux plugin manager settings to default configuration
  • Compile and install Gaia and Essentia from customized source
  • Automated install and configuration of many Beets plugins
    • acousticbrainz, albumtypes, bandcamp, describe, duplicates
    • edit, extrafiles, fromfilename, hook, importadded, info
    • lyrics, lastgenre, missing, mbsync, mpdstats, play, playlist
    • smartplaylist, mpdupdate, unimported, xtractor
  • Add help menu to mpplus
  • Add man pages for scdl and bandcamp-dl
  • Add script to download Soundcloud favorites
  • Add script to download Bandcamp collections
  • Add options to use AcousticBrainz rather than Essentia for audio information
  • Add custom targets to xtractor config
  • Add Bandcamp and Soundcloud downloads to mppinit
  • Add import and metadata retrieval to mppinit

Changes in version 1.0.3 release 1 include:

  • Add support for Raspberry Pi
  • Include mppcava fork of Cava spectrum visualizer in MusicPlayerPlus package
  • Check if DISPLAY can be used and if not execute in console mode using tmux
  • Configure MPD with user systemd service using configuration in ~/.config/mpd/
  • Add Alt-f mpcplus key binding to search music library using fzf
  • Additional custom tmux key bindings
  • Configure MPD user service in mpcinit, move MPD fifo to user MPD config dir
  • Add option to specify alternate spectrum visualizer
  • Create terminal profiles in mpcinit
  • Add support for tmuxp tmux session manager
  • Add tmuxp configuration files in ~/.config/tmuxp/
  • Convert mppsplash-tmux and mpcplus-tmux to use tmuxp
  • Use gnome-terminal as default rather than xfce4-terminal
  • Add fzmp command and fzf dependency
  • Add command line option to invoke fzmp
  • Add support for fzmp to interactive menu in mpplus
  • Add man page for fzmp
  • Add mpcplus cheat sheet
  • Rename asciijulia to mppjulia to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
  • Rename asciiplasma to mppplasma to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
  • Rename asciimpplus to mpprocks to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
  • Added asciinema dependency

Previous changes in version 1.0.2 include:

  • Add alsa_conf command to configure ALSA sound system
  • Add management of MPD services through mpplus command
  • Disable tmux recording when tmux is disabled
  • Improve interactive menu entries
  • If -s song argument is provided look for song in MPD music library as well
  • Added interactive mode with -i command line option
  • Added support for mpplus front-end to mppsplash and mppsplash-tmux
  • Add ability to download cover art to mpplus command
  • Add option to download_cover_art to specify alternate music directory
  • Add -d option to mpplus to download album cover art
  • Use MPlayer to play media during ASCIImatics animations
  • Use a signal handler in ASCIImatics animations to fade audio and cleanup
  • Use a FIFO in ASCIImatics animations to communicate with MPlayer
  • Added tmux session integration to mpplus command
  • Re-enable visualizer in mpcplus MPD client build
  • Cleanup tmux sessions, add ability to kill tmux sessions in mpplus
  • Add capability to play audio while displaying ASCIImatics scenes
  • Add several ASCIImatics scenes including one during initialization
  • Rename mpcava to mpplus
  • Integration with asciinema for recording ascii terminal sessions
  • Several new commands including:
    • alsa_audio_test
    • asciijulia
    • asciimpplus
    • asciiplasma
    • download_cover_art
    • mpcinit
    • mpcplus-tmux
    • mppsplash
    • mppsplash-tmux
  • Added display of client, visualizer, and album cover art in tmux
  • Additional terminal support