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Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

34 points by aabiji 3y ago

benrutter 3y ago
Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? Looks like a cool project at first glance, and the code is really nice. But I don't fully get what a " background" music player is? Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?
- M95D 3y ago
  ... and there's no support for playlists. So, there's actually no control over what it plays.
  - trymas 3y ago
    I guess you can put your wanted songs in a “playlist” directory and define it in the config?
    - DANmode 3y ago
      or a playlist file (if the player supports them).
    - M95D 3y ago
      Yeah, I'm going to re-organize my entire music collection to fit the player's limitations. Not. Going. To. Happen.
      - trymas 3y ago
        Symlinks could work, I guess.
      - vacuumboots 3y ago
        sounds like it's Not. For. You.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  > Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones? At random. That's why it's background. > Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? I would assume what it's just what is on the box - a player for when you want some background noise. Though it gave me an idea and I added a batch file to my global scripts: start C:\Shares\personal\justsomehnguy\progs\Winamp563\winamp.exe "%CD%"
  - wumms 3y ago
    > At random. That's why it's background. From the github page: # The order in which the audio files are played # Can be either "Random" or "Alphabetical". playback_order = "Random"
- HKH2 3y ago
  - It plays instantly. You don't need to click through a GUI and see names, labels etc. Just press a play shortcut. - There's an element of surprise, and you can hear your whole collection. Sure, you can do that with a GUI, but it's a few extra clicks. You will always get used to music. I wrote a player that will play a piece of music less frequently if I skip it faster, so what I skip less I will hear again sooner. Also, I add extra meta keys to the shortcut if I'm far too used to something and don't want to hear it in a while. Also, I flag music that has lyrics / speaking / vocal sounds so I can skip it when I'm trying to focus.
- andion 3y ago
  You can save a ton of battery using things like this. I created a similar app using mac's afplay 11 (yikes) years ago https://github.com/andion/gramola https://github.com/andion/gramola I don't use it anymore but at the time it made my battery last longer, you can see a battery consumption comparison on the repo.
- aabiji 3y ago
  Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.
  - benrutter 3y ago
    Hey, nice project, I enjoyed reading your code! I do the same thing and wrote a terminal mp3 player a while back in python (mpy3). I really like the idea though of just having an "on/off" switch and not thinking about what's playing. Feels like a fun implementation- will definitely give it a go!
  - Player6225 3y ago
    Seems like a really great way to play more passive longer-running kinds of study music/sounds like coffeeshop noise or lofi-hiphop!
chaosprint 3y ago
nice work! can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse https://github.com/aabiji/muse"? I also recommend: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire for your further development I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
- aabiji 3y ago
  Hey! Yeah, using cargo install --git should work. You should just make sure that ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH.
toastercat 3y ago
Any plans to make it compatible with more bands other than Muse? /s Cool project.

34 points by aabiji 3y ago

Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? Looks like a cool project at first glance, and the code is really nice. But I don't fully get what a " background" music player is? Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

M95D 3y ago
... and there's no support for playlists. So, there's actually no control over what it plays.
- trymas 3y ago
  I guess you can put your wanted songs in a “playlist” directory and define it in the config?
  - DANmode 3y ago
    or a playlist file (if the player supports them).
  - M95D 3y ago
    Yeah, I'm going to re-organize my entire music collection to fit the player's limitations. Not. Going. To. Happen.
    - trymas 3y ago
      Symlinks could work, I guess.
    - vacuumboots 3y ago
      sounds like it's Not. For. You.
justsomehnguy 3y ago
> Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones? At random. That's why it's background. > Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? I would assume what it's just what is on the box - a player for when you want some background noise. Though it gave me an idea and I added a batch file to my global scripts: start C:\Shares\personal\justsomehnguy\progs\Winamp563\winamp.exe "%CD%"
- wumms 3y ago
  > At random. That's why it's background. From the github page: # The order in which the audio files are played # Can be either "Random" or "Alphabetical". playback_order = "Random"
HKH2 3y ago
- It plays instantly. You don't need to click through a GUI and see names, labels etc. Just press a play shortcut. - There's an element of surprise, and you can hear your whole collection. Sure, you can do that with a GUI, but it's a few extra clicks. You will always get used to music. I wrote a player that will play a piece of music less frequently if I skip it faster, so what I skip less I will hear again sooner. Also, I add extra meta keys to the shortcut if I'm far too used to something and don't want to hear it in a while. Also, I flag music that has lyrics / speaking / vocal sounds so I can skip it when I'm trying to focus.
andion 3y ago
You can save a ton of battery using things like this. I created a similar app using mac's afplay 11 (yikes) years ago https://github.com/andion/gramola https://github.com/andion/gramola I don't use it anymore but at the time it made my battery last longer, you can see a battery consumption comparison on the repo.
aabiji 3y ago
Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.
- benrutter 3y ago
  Hey, nice project, I enjoyed reading your code! I do the same thing and wrote a terminal mp3 player a while back in python (mpy3). I really like the idea though of just having an "on/off" switch and not thinking about what's playing. Feels like a fun implementation- will definitely give it a go!
- Player6225 3y ago
  Seems like a really great way to play more passive longer-running kinds of study music/sounds like coffeeshop noise or lofi-hiphop!

chaosprint 3y ago

nice work! can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse https://github.com/aabiji/muse"? I also recommend: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire for your further development I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

aabiji 3y ago
Hey! Yeah, using cargo install --git should work. You should just make sure that ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH.

toastercat 3y ago

Any plans to make it compatible with more bands other than Muse? /s Cool project.