dr_unsort(1)

✨ dr_unsort — USER COMMANDS ✨

okay bestie, so this is dr_unsort(1) and it's about to fix your whole "why is my queue in order like a boring person" situation 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dr_unsort — unsort the current mpd playlist

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dr_unsort

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically dr_unsort invokes unsort(1) on the current audio playlist as used by mpd. run it when you want some variation in your music — like, chaos but make it curated. shuffle walked so unsort could run, iykyk 🌈

💖 EXAMPLE 💖

say The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg is the current playing track and your current playlist looks like this:

  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
> The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

then invoking dr_unsort will yield something like e.g.

  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
> The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
  The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
  Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
  Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

like… the vibes? immaculate. the > lines stay put, everything else gets remixed 🧚

😭 WARNING 😭

Due to limitations in the mpc/mpd protocol, dr_unsort needs filesystem level write access to mpd's playlist directory. no write access, no unsorting, no slay. it's giving "permissions check is the main character" fr fr 💀

👑 ENVIRONMENT 👑

dr_unsort honors these strings:

• DR_PLAYLISTS — mpd's playlist directory
• DR_UNSORT — unsort pathname

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

unsort(1), available from http://packages.debian.org/unsort.

💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

This manpage is copyright 2010, 2011 Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>. Draai is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with draai. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's dr_unsort 20201215, dated 15 дец 2020 🫶 go forth and unsort, you absolute icon 💖✨