CMus-dynamiclistfm

Dynamic list generator for CMus (C* Music Player) based on the LastFm database

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Aims

• to create a dynamic playlist, similar to the extension in Amarok 1.2
• to maintain a low-level script able to work with CMus smoothly

Features

1. it creates a playlist based on a list of songs, matching the result with a local library
2. it creates a playlist based on current song playing/queuing
3. it specifies the size of the playlist

ToDo

• Loop playlist songs
• Get lastfm similartracks
• Limit the method to retrieve xml data
• Check existence in CMus library (*.lb)
• Verify generation of playlists in CMus
• fn() Selector: current song or playlist (and live re-make amarok)
• playlist size
• create playbase.txt or CMus/playlist.pl
• Add subset to playlist
• live-mode playlist generator
• use jq instead of xml

Prerequisites :

• cmus - is a small ncurses based music player. It supports various output methods by output-plugins. cmus has completely configurable keybindings and can be controlled from the outside via cmus-remote
• curl - is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction.
• tr - is an UNIX utility for translating, or deleting, or squeezing repeated characters.
• awk - is a powerful method for processing or analysing text files—in particular, data files that are organised by lines (rows) and columns.
• xml - is a command lines utility to parse xml files

Installation and Use :

In any folder, download cmus-dynamiclistfm by cloning the project

git clone https://github.com/guxsousa/cmus-dynamiclistfm.git

or by getting a zip

wget https://github.com/guxsousa/cmus-dynamiclistfm/archive/master.zip
unzip cmus-dynamiclistfm-master.zip

Get inside the folder and check permissions to make the files executable

cd cmus-dynamiclistfm-master/
chmod 755 *.sh
cd ..

Get an API key from LastFm. Create a file called API_file and paste the key there.

touch API_file
vi API_file
<paste key here>

or just

YOURAPIKEYFROMLASTFM > API_file

So that the API_file content is:

YOURAPIKEYFROMLASTFM

Files

add_songs.sh is used to add songs into an external file (*.txt), while a song is playing in CMus

./add_songs.sh

list_file.sh reads an external file and creates a playlist. This file can be the one created with add_songs or a file created manually.

./list_files.sh playlist.txt 21

list_current.sh creates a playlist based on the song played in CMus.

./list_current.sh 45

CMus Shurcut Keys

1 : tree

2 : library

3 : queue

4 : playlists

5 : directory

6 : filters

7 : Settings

u : refresh

c : continue

r : repeat

s : shuffle

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License.

Authors

Gus Sousa -- guxsousa