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.

[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.

[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.

[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!
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.

[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.
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.
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.