mpd-dynamic - a dynamic playlist for mpd
version 1.120610
This program implements a dynamic playlist for MPD, build on top of the Audio::MPD perl module.
MPD (music player daemon) is a cool music player, but it lacks a dynamic playlist. A dynamic playlist is a playlist that will change automatically over time. In particular, it will remove already played songs (keeping at most a given number of songs) and add new songs to the playlist so it never fall short of songs.
Note that since mpd is a daemon needing no gui to work, mpd-dynamic is also a daemon. That is, it will fork and do all its work from the background. This way, you can fire mpd and mpd-dynamic and forget completely about your music (especially since mpd-dynamic is a low-resource program): it will just be there! :-)
mpd-dynamic
mpd
mpd-dynamic [options]
You can customize the usage of mpd-dynamic with the following options:
Number of old tracks to keep in the backlog. Defaults to 10.
Number of new tracks to keep in the to-be-played playlist. Defaults to 10.
Time spent sleeping (in seconds) before checking if playlist should be updated. Default to 5 seconds.
Run mpd-dynamic in debug mode. In particular, the program will not daemonize itself. Default to false.
Print debug messages with this encoding. Since mpd-dynamic is meant to be a silent daemon, this option will not be used outside of debug mode. Default to utf-8.
utf-8
Print the usual program information
Note however that those flags are optional: since mpd-dynamic comes with some sane defaults, you can fire mpd-dynamic as is.
You can also take advantage of ratings if you want. With those options, songs need to have at least a given rating (or no rating yet) to be inserted: this way, you will only listen to your favorite songs!
Ratings can be created / updated with mpd-rate.
mpd-rate
Note that if you supply a non-existant rating db-file, the rating mechanism will be ignored. The following options control the rating mechanism:
The path of a db file with the ratings per song. The keys are the song path (relative to MPD root), and the value is an integer (the rating). Default to ~/.mpd/ratings.db.
~/.mpd/ratings.db
The minimum rating for a song to be inserted in the playlist. Default to 4.
Jerome Quelin
This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Jerome Quelin.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Audio::MPD, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Audio::MPD
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Audio::MPD
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.