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by _avatar 9y ago
I tried to find some external tooling to help with this, but was unsuccessful. In the end, I just built a (hidden) feature into the app that intercepts and displays the key presses in that little bar on the bottom before dispatching the eve
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by _avatar 9y ago
I'd like to add support for various streaming services in the future. There is already a preliminary API that allows plugins to add music to the data store, which can be paired with other plugins that control downloading and decoding o
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by _avatar 9y ago
Not currently; the only client right now is a native Android app[1]. However, the server[2] uses vanilla HTTP (for audio) and WebSockets (for data and eventing), so it should be relatively straight forward to build a web frontend. [1] http
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by _avatar 9y ago
These are all common libraries that most distributions should have. 1. "asound" refers to ALSA. 2. "pulse" is PulseAudio 3. "libmp3lame" is LAME A quick google search looks like these may be the packages you ne
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by _avatar 9y ago
Not yet, unfortunately. This is on my list of things to do. You can however, in most contexts, switch to the "category filter" view by pressing "f" without explicitly engaging command mode. This will switch the view, the
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by _avatar 9y ago
Gapless playback should more or less work out of the box for most file formats (flac, ogg, etc). For MP3 files it's still a bit hit-or-miss, and depends on what settings were used when encoding the files. This should improve over time.
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by _avatar 9y ago
mpd and cmus are both awesome. I found mpd cumbersome to setup, and couldn't find a frontend I liked. cmus was closer to hitting the sweet spot, but I didn't find a remote control (or streaming) solution that worked the way I want
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Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server(musikcube.com)
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