pimpd2 - Perl Interface for the Music Player Daemon 2

pimpd2 is a command-line based MPD client that implements all the features the author was missing from the other awesome client, mpc.

Regular expression based database queries
Regular expression based searches in active playlist
Quick searches for artist, album and title
Randomizing of playlist; you could add 100 (carefully!) randomly selected tracks to your playlist
Fetching of lyrics on demand
Queue functionality
Powerful interactive shell for basic MPD operations
Monitoring of MPD - Whenever a song change takes place, pimpd announces
Ability to easily copy current track to specified location; i.e your portable musicplayer of choice, your NAS or maybe to your to-burn directory
Huge load of interesting information regarding what’s currently spinning
Support for 256 colors
Support for colorschemes

Options

      -np,   --now-playing      basic song info on a single line
      -i,    --info             full song info
      -cp,   --copy             copy the current track to destination
      -cpa,  --copy-album       copy the current album to destination
      -sh,   --shell            spawn the interactive shell
      -q,    --queue            queue tracks

  Playlist:
      -pls,  --playlist         show the current playlist
             --playlists        list all known playlists
      -af,   --add-files        add files to playlist
      -a,    --add-playlist     add playlist
      -r,    --randomize        randomize a new playlist with n tracks
      -ra,   --random-album     add n random full albums
      -rma,  --rmalbum          remove album matching pattern from playlist
      -da,   --delete-album     delete the current album from disk
      -f,    --love             love song
             --loved            check if the current song is loved
      -u,    --unlove           unlove songs matching pattern
      -spl,  --search-playlist  search the current playlist for str

  Collection:
      -lsa,  --songs            list songs on album
      -l,    --albums           list albums by artist
      -sdb,  --search-db        search database for pattern
      -sar,  --search-artist    search database for artist
      -sal,  --search-album     search database for album
      -set,  --search-title     search database for title
             --slove            search the database with loved songs for pattern
             --stats            display statistics about MPD
             --status           display MPD status

  Controls:
      -n,    --next             next track in playlist
      -p,    --previous         previous track in playlist
      -cl,   --clear            clear the playlist
      -cr,   --crop             remove all songs but the current one from playlist
      -x,    --xfade            set crossfade
             --pause            toggle playback status
             --repeat           toggle repeat mode
             --random           toggle random mode

      -p,    --play             start playback (locally and remote)
      -s,    --stop             stop playback (locally and remote)
      -k,    --kill             stop playback (locally)

      -h,    --help             show the help and exit
      -m,    --man              show the manual and exit
      -v,    --version          show version info and exit

Environment

pimpd2 will look for a configuration file in the following locations, in this order:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pimpd2/pimpd2.conf
~/.config/pimpd2/pimpd.conf
~/.pimpd2.conf
./pimpd2.conf
/etc/pimpd2.conf

AUTHOR

Magnus Woldrich
CPAN ID: WOLDRICH
m@japh.se
http://japh.se

pimpd2 - Perl Interface for the Music Player Daemon 2

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