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by gmt4 5mo ago
I share the sentiment, even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious, I've gone the route of just resorting to a "simpler" setup, just a collection of shell scripts to manage mpv to play my files from my di
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Show HN: Mpvc, minimal music player for controling mpv from the shell(gmt4.github.io)
1 points by gmt4 5mo ago|0 comments
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by gmt4 8mo ago
I'm using and enjoying https://github.com/gmt4/mpvc which is just mpv+shell, it covers most of my needs: offline, internet radio, and streaming. Previous HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by gmt4 3y ago
Noted! that was not by far the purpose, at least made some laughs. I've tried to lower the amount of acronyms in the About and Overview section, adding links to the relevant pages that describe the acronyms, however, it's rather d
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Show HN: Mpvc-TUI – A minimal mpc-like CLI and TUI for controlling mpv (repost)(gmt4.github.io)
8 points by gmt4 3y ago|2 comments
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by gmt4 3y ago
Thanks for that one, mpv-mpris is not present on Debian/Ubuntu, but is just easy to fetch the mpris.so from https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris . Wrote a small entry to remember the setup: https://github.
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by gmt4 3y ago
I use mpv + mpvc, started using it heavily a couple of years ago. Eventually, I started implementing features I was missing such as play, and search Youtube music, manage playlists/playstate, minimal TUI, fzf support, an equalizer. And
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by gmt4 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that one!
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by gmt4 4y ago
Just came here to chime that I've been playing with mpv + fzf + notify-send, and as a result mpvc-tui has got now some cool fuzzy search + desktop notifications. I've included a bunch of screenshots showing the updates at: https
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by gmt4 4y ago
That's definitely worth keeping an eye on, but actually its not that bad. Take this with a grain of salt, as I only have a user view, not mpv developer. I consider the JSON IPC API quite stable, well documented through mpv(1) and http
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by gmt4 4y ago
The MPD & its clients are quite more complete, providing features such as: media library, indexing, extended searches, tags. etc. Instead mpvc is just a simple client that provides a mpc-like interface, and communicates with the mpv run
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by gmt4 4y ago
Good one, I wondered the same, and decided that for a minimal TUI the shell was more than enough.
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by gmt4 4y ago
Good to know, and thanks! I started using mpv recently, about year ago, and also found that mpv is simple, works, and the documentation has you covered. Note that the aim/need is not on providing a complete player/interface replac
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Show HN: mpvc-tui – A minimal mpc-like CLI and TUI for controlling mpv(gmt4.github.io)
47 points by gmt4 4y ago|10 comments