Hacks

From Music Player Daemon Community Wiki

This is a collection of various Hacks & Scripts that have been collected over time. Feel free to improve on them, add new ones, but don't be surprised if they're broken or otherwise not working.

WARNING: Do not assume these have not been modified. They are usually very short so take the time to review it before running it.

To get these hacks as a group, or as a download, see mpd-hacks.

Contents 1 Chat / IRC / Jabber 1.1 IRC 1.2 Jabber 2 Display 3 Last.fm 4 Metadata Fetching 5 Searching 6 Other 7 Playlist

[edit] Chat / IRC / Jabber

[edit] IRC

• impc - Irssi client.
• iMPD - Irssi client which effectively uses mpc to communicated with MPD.
• irssi-np - script that posts the song playing in mpd to an irc channel
• mpd.py - A client to control MPD through weechat
• mpdnp.py - This plugin lets you inform all users in the current channel about the song which music-player-daemon (MPD) is currently playing for weechat.
• weempd.py - A client to announce the song of weechat
• xchat_mpd - MPD control script for Xchat. As of version 0.1 (current version), only supports track announce.

[edit] Jabber

• MPDGajim - Very simple Python pseudo-daemon which updates Gajim's status to the current track. (Requires mpdclient2)
• MPT - MPT (Music Player Tune) is a simple Python implementation of User Tune. It publishes the current song information through XMPP.
• jmpc - jabber bot for controlling MPD.

[edit] Display

• MPD OSD - Uses python-osd to display an OSD of the current playing song + artist in the top-left corner of the screen.
• mpd_osd - Dirty hack to display the title of the played song by OSD.
• mpd-osd.sh and mpd-new-track.sh - Two Shell scripts, the first draw the current track with xosd, and the second works with the latter to show an OSD when a new track is being played.
• smpc - Micro script that works with dzen to show On-Screen info of mpc output.
• mpdnotify - A simple bash script that uses Galago's libnotify to put up a notification with album art every song change.
• mpd-notify.py - Simple python script that displays mpd status and song information (with album art) using libnotify.

[edit] Last.fm

• bashfm - play Last.fm streams with basic controls from command line
• Python LastFMProxy - Python proxy to deliver Last.fm to your MPD
• mcf - A shell script that gives you easy MPD access to playing last.fm radio stations using mpc.
• lastfmpdqc - lastfm/mpd queuing client. gets recommended tracks from last.fm and adds them from your library to mpd's current playlist.
• MPD_sima - MPD_sima is a python script who's automagically adding title to your playlist following last.fm suggestions.
• lfm - A bash script that abstracts the usage of last.fm URLs and autoplays the radio station of choice in mpd.

[edit] Metadata Fetching

• lyrc - Fetches lyrics from lyrc.com.ar. (alternative: lyriki) Bash script, but there's also a zsh version.
• mlyric - Fetches lyrics of the currently playing song, adds it to id3tag and displays it on stdout. If id3tag already has a lyric, this one will be displayed instead.
• mpd_lyric.sh - A shell script for displaying lyrics with interactive programs, ie less
• mpdlyrics - Shows lyrics of current song on w3m browser [you may change it] (fetchs it or read previously stored). Uses "feeling lucky" feature. Dirty bash script.
• mpdlyricsonbrowser - Show lyrics of current song on a mozilla like browser.
• mpdlyricsscript - A very working python mpd lyrics script. No extra dependencies!
• Conkylyrics - show lyrics in a conky window on your desktop
• mpdlyrics.rb - Script fetches lyrics from lyricwiki.org (as does Amarok) and displays them in your pager. Needs only Ruby and mpd. Works.

[edit] Searching

• mpdgrep - A simple bash script that plays the next song in your library matching that phrase.
• zenfind - A simple expansion of mpdgrep that uses Zenity.

[edit] Other

• play - Just type "play mygfavaoritealbum" and your favorite album is loaded. Very typo tolerant.
• addrandom - Horrible hack to add random song to currently playing. Edit this example and make it better!
• AMPDlogger - Small bash script to log tracks played with MPD to a plain text file.
• arthist-recent - Dirty hack to let Artist display tracks in reverse chronological order
• bluempd - Hacks and instructions on using your bluetooth device to control MPD
• copycurrent - Copies the currently playing song to a USB-Stick
• dplay - MPD integration with Midnight Commander
• mpdplay - Another MPD integration within Midnight Commander. This one allows you to play every song in your filesystem.
• favo-fiddle - volume fading, random volume manipulation
• GoodSleep - Go to sleep and wake up with fading music, GUI provided
• mpc-fade - Volume fading
• mpdfind - xmmsfind clone for mpd
• mpc-pause - Bind this script to a key to toggle pause/play just like XMMS' --pause-play argument. (Deprecated to mpc toggle)
• mpc-play - Play any file (e.g. outside mpdroot directory)
• mpd-handler - Copy a single musik file to the "mpd-root / single " folder and play it/or not. also handle m3u/pls playlists.
• mpdwiki - Shows wikipedia article about current mpd artist using w3m [you may change it].
• streamup - Start and stop a stream seamlessly
• state save - Save and restore MPD states on your localhost.
• streampush - Give this script a url, it'll add all the streams in that page.
• SystemV Init - Init Script to start and stop MPD via System V
• update and add - first update, then add all music files
• MPC / MPD Score command - Add support for scoring
• MusicMagicMixer - script to use with mpc and Predixis MusicMagicMixer
• playstream - Smart handler for m3u and pls files.
• ices-client - A Perl script for streaming MP3s to your Icecast server
• mpd-growl.pl - A perl script that will post notifications on song change.
• mpd_alarm.pl - A perl script that allows you to start mpd playing with a slowly increasing volume at a configurable time.
• playAlarm.sh - A bash script that plays an alarm at a (nearly) specific time, at maximum volume.
• mpckbd - Simple C program to respond to run mpc in response to keyboard events.
• rg.py - A wrapper around mp3gain that adds ReplayGain info to ID3v2 tags instead of APEv2 tags.
• ape2id3.py - A script to convert APEv2 ReplayGain tags to ID3v2 ReplayGain tags which MPD can read.
• Hack:avahi mpd.service - announce mpd with avahi
• Hack:avahi phpmp.service announce phpmp with avahi
• mms2ogg - Convert mms streams to ogg using vlcIntended for use with webradio streams in general and streamtuner in specific.
• stream-monitor - Two scripts that monitor mpd while it is playing a stream. If the Time: status stops then it tries to have it play the stream again. Keeps the stream going 24/7.
• ralbum - Simple C program that plays a random album.
• stop_after_current - A bash script that makes mpd stop after the currently playing song.
• mpd-stats - Simple perl scripts to keep track of what mpd is playing and generate stats from it
• musicplaynow - A tiny shell script for playing MP3 files from any location, even outside the music_directory (made for integration with desktop shells)
• mpdrecording-stream - A small shell script to recording/ripping currently playing broadcast internet radio stream to *.mp3
• playJingle.sh - A shell script which will start playing a jingle at a certain moment in time.
• voyeur - A script to announce your currently playing song to the Mac OS Framework.
• GDM - Enable multimedia keys on a multimedia keyboard to control mpd.
• xmradio - A shell script to retrieve and play XM Radio mms streams using mimms and mpc/mpd.
• mpd-collection2csv.py - Allows you to export your MPD collection to a CSV (comma-separated values) file.
• mpdipod - A script to sync mpd playlists to an ipod.
• itunes2mpd - A script to load a copied iTunes playlist into mpd.

[edit] Playlist

• album - Lists all albums by given artist and replaces the playlist with them.
• di.fm-playlists - Download all playlists from www.di.fm, convert them from .pls to .m3u and place them into the mpd-playlist-directory.
• mpc-dmenu - Use dmenu to select a song from the current playlist.
• mpc_playlist - uses mpc to add playlists beginning with special char.
• Mpdalbum - a shell script able to automatically fill your playlist with full albums and with some other nice features.
• mpd_weighted_playlist.py - Slightly alter the frequency that certain artists/albums/songs are played within an otherwise completely random playlist.
• mpdNextAlbum - Jump to next or prev album (nice for remote control).
• mppledit - Playlist editor that uses your $EDITOR to manipulate the playlist.
• mpd-pruner - A small script to remove duplicate songs from your playlist
• mpd_random_playlist - Adds a number of files from the playlist to MPD.
• rmprev - Removes previously played song from playlist. (obsoleted by consume mode)
• podcast-bounce - Provide a static URL to the top-most entry of podcasts or m3u/pls/asx playlists.
• ralbumd - Simple C daemon that polls mpd and plays a random album when the current playlist is finished.
• streammpc - A script that passes a playlist (m3u or pls formats currently supported) to a user selected choice between a local player and a remote MPD server.
• mpdrandomd - A simple python daemon that lively enqueues single songs or entire albums (marked as "norandom") to the current playlist. Contains a script to complete the playlist with the end of the album after the current song.
• mpdshuf - This moves songs randomly in your playlist. Might be useful as a "quick Shuffle" button.
• mpd-random-pl-album.py - This script picks a random album from the current playlist. Can run as a daemon, selecting a random album from the playlist at the end of the current album (similar to amarok's album-shuffle mode)