Miniplayer

A curses based mpd client with basic functionality and album art.

After installation, the player can be opened from the terminal with miniplayer.

Installation

This package can be installed by:

1. Cloning this repository to your computer and running

python setup.py install

2. Through PyPi with

pip install miniplayer

3. By installing the miniplayer-git package with your AUR package manager of choice.

Configuration

The config file is located at ~/.config/miniplayer/config. The example configuration file, config.example, has all the default values.

player

• music_directory: The path to your music directory for extracting album art.
• font_width: The width of your font in pixels in the actual terminal.
• font_height: The height of your font in pixels in the actual terminal.
• image_method: The method to use for drawing album art. Available values are pixcat and ueberzug If you are not using Kitty, try ueberzug.

mpd

• host: The mpd host
• port: The mpd port

Keybinds

Key	function
h	Show keybinds
p	Play/pause
>	Next track
<	Last track
q	Quit
+	Volume +5
-	Volume -5