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. You will need to create the file yourself.

player

• 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.

  

• volume_step: The ammount (in percents) the volume will be adjusted on pressing the volume up and volume down keys.

• album_art_only: Whether or not to only draw the album art and no other track info (true/false).

• auto_close: Whether or not to automatically close the player once the mpd playlist has concluded (true/false).

• show_playlist: Whether or not to show the playlist view.

art

• music_directory: The path to your music directory for extracting album art from the files.
• http_base_url: Base URL of webserver which serves the album art for your albums (takes precedence over music_directory). Useful for users of Android MPD clients MAFA or MPDroid. For more information see the MPDroid wiki.
• http_cover_filenames: Space separated list of filenames to use in the call to the webserver to fetch the album art.
• 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
• pass: The mpd password

keybindings

This section allows you to change the keybinds for the player. The format for a keybind is key = action (for example p = play_pause or left = last_track). Available actions are

• play_pause
• next_track
• last_track
• volume_down
• volume_up
• toggle_info
• help
• quit
• select_down
• select_up
• select

Default keybinds

Key	function
h	Show keybinds
p	Play/pause
>	Next track
<	Last track
q	Quit
+	Volume up
-	Volume down
i	Toggle info
Up	Selection up
Down	Selection down
Enter	Play selected song

These keybinds can be changed by editing the config file. See the config.example file for the format.

F.A.Q.

• Q: Album art is not showing up.
  A: If you're using music_directory for fetching your album art, make sure your it is not quoted i.e. if your music directory is ~/My Music then your config should look like music_directory = ~/My Music.
  If this does not work, try changing image_method from pixcat to ueberzug or vice versa.

• Q: Album art is too big/too small.
  A: You need to configure font_height and font_width. Their values should be the actual pixel height and width of a character in your terminal.

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