I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.
I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
mpc load $1
mpc volume 80
mpc random on
mpc play
Name it shufflenplay so then you can shufflenplay <playlist name>
Oh man are we sharing mpd scripts? I have this one that lets me search through music directory and add anything to the play queue (so I can add a single track or an entire album or whatever):
#!/bin/bash
MUSIC_DIR=$(grep -m 1 -E '^\s*music_directory\s+' "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf" | awk '{printf $2}' | tr -d \" | tr -d \')
MUSIC_DIR="${MUSIC_DIR/#\~/$HOME}"
cd "$MUSIC_DIR"
CHOICE="$(find . | cut -c 3- | dmenu)" || exit 1;
mpc insert "$CHOICE"
mpc play
There’s also this one that lets me save the currently playing song to a playlist of my choice. It’s good if I’m listening to a new album or a new artist and suddenly think “yeah, this song really fits with the mood of X playlist”:
#!/bin/bash
MUSIC_DIR=$(grep -m 1 -E '^\s*playlist_directory\s+' "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf" | awk '{printf $2}' | tr -d \" | tr -d \')
choice="$(mpc lsplaylists | dmenu)" || { echo "No choice." ; exit 1; }
MUSIC_DIR="${MUSIC_DIR/#\~/$HOME}"
mpc current -f '%file%' >> "$MUSIC_DIR/$choice.m3u"
Here’s my script to shuffle play an existing playlist as well:
#!/bin/sh
choice="$(mpc lsplaylists | dmenu)"
mpc clear
sleep 0.1
mpc load "$choice"
sleep 0.1
mpc shuffle
sleep 0.1
mpc play
The sleeps are to prevent Cantata (graphical mpd client) from shitting itself if I run this script while it’s open. Also notice mpc shuffle instead of mpc random on. It shuffles the current playlist, but keeps the linear play order, so that I can add songs to play right after the current one.
https://files.catbox.moe/5ex40l.jpg this is how it looks on my end (for some reason I can’t upload photos rn, it errors out)
I just self host jellyfin
i have different directories named after moods/styles filled with hard links to my music. works better than playlists for me
So real. I’ve always thought music apps like iTunes/Spotify etc. were superfluous when you already have a file system and sym links.
real. I was using “mpv --shuffle soundcloud-playlist-link-here” for a while because soundcloud’s shuffle literally does not work
