Hack:favo-fiddle

From Music Player Daemon Community Wiki

fade and volume fiddle

this can do the following:

• kind of telnet to mpd (with working ctrl+d;)
• fade from current to given volume
• set random volumes (in a range from [min] till [max]) in given or random interval
• fade to random volumes (in a range)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

host = ARGV[0] || 'localhost'
port = ( ARGV[1] || 6600 ).to_i

require 'socket'

socket = TCPSocket.new( host, port )

buffer = Array.new
quiet, @stop = false, false
password = 'foo'

tRecieve = Thread.start do
	while input = socket.gets
		puts input if not quiet
		buffer.push input
	end
end

def fade( socket, from, to )
	if from < to
		from.upto( to ) { |x|
			break if @stop
			socket.print "setvol #{x}\n"
			sleep 0.1
		}
	else
		from.downto( to ) { |x|
			break if @stop
			socket.print "setvol #{x}\n"
			sleep 0.1
		}
	end
end

if password
	socket.print "password #{password}\n"
end

begin
	while output = $stdin.gets
		local_command = output.chomp.split( ' ' )
		case local_command.first
			when 'quit', 'exit'
				socket.close
				exit

			when 'stop'
				@stop = true
				sleep 3
				@stop = false

			when 'fade'
				quiet = true

				socket.print "status\n"
				sleep 0.5

				buffer.delete_if { |x| x !~ /volume/ }
				from = buffer.last.slice( /[0-9]*$/ ).to_i
				to = local_command.last.to_i

				puts "- fading from #{from} to #{to}."
				fade( socket, from, to )
				puts "- finished."

				quiet = false

			when 'random-volume'
				min = local_command[1].to_i
				max = local_command[2].to_i
				timeout = local_command[3]

				if min == 0 and max == 0 and timeout == nil
					puts '- usage: random-volume [min] [max] [interval]'
					puts '  interval is in seconds and can be \'rand\' for random'
					puts '  values between 0 and 0.5 seconds. end with typing \'stop\''
				else
					puts "- random volume: from #{min} till #{max}"
					tRandomVolume = Thread.start do
						while burp = rand( max )
							break if @stop
							if burp > min
								socket.print "setvol #{burp}\n"
								print "#{burp} "
								if timeout == 'rand'
									sleep rand( 0.5 )
								else
									sleep timeout.to_f
								end
							end
						end
						print "\n"
					end
				end
	
			when 'fade-random'
				min = local_command[1].to_i
				max = local_command[2].to_i

				if min == 0 and max == 0
					puts '- usage: fade-random [min] [max]'
					puts '  end with typing \'stop\''
				else
					from = min
					socket.print "setvol #{min}"

					tRandomVolume = Thread.start do
						while to = rand( max )
							break if @stop
							if to > min
								puts to
								fade( socket, from, to )
								from = to
							end
						end
					end
				end

			when 'help'
				puts '- commands:'
				puts '  fade [target-value]'
				puts '  random-volume [min] [max] [interval|rand]'
				puts '  fade-random [min] [max]'
	
			else
				socket.print output
		end
	end
rescue Interrupt
	socket.close
end