MPFADE(1)

💖 MPFADE — the fade-y one 💖

okay bestie, listen up: mpfade is a lil program from the mpfade manual, section 1, and it fades your mpd volume in or out. that's it. that's the vibe. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mpfade [minutes] [max|min] [host]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ngl, mpfade has two whole personalities and which one you get depends entirely on whether mpd is playing or not. it's giving split-brain but make it cute. 🫶

• if mpd is NOT playing (or it's paused, which honestly same): it starts mpd playing at a low volume, then gradually cranks that volume up to the specified max value — and the default max is 50 — over the specified number of minutes, where the default is 10. so like, a slow lil rise. main character entrance energy. 🔥
• if mpd IS already playing: it works in reverse, bestie. it reduces the volume over time until it hits the specified min — and if you don't give it one, the min defaults to a tenth of what it was at the start. then it stops playing. goodbye, gorgeous. 😭

and here's the part that's genuinely so thoughtful: mpfade tries to interact well with manual volume changes you make. here's the tea:

• if the volume is fading up and you change the volume manually, it stops. this is intended to be useful when used as an alarm clock. 💀 (you woke up, you grabbed the dial, it respects you. iconic.)
• if the volume is fading down, the changes you make to the volume will be noticed, and the fade down will continue from that point. so it adapts, no cap.

also, the minutes value can be a floating point value. yes queen, 0.5 is legal. and if the hostname is omitted, the MPD_HOST environment variable will be used. 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2007 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mpdtoys

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 — this lil drop of lore came to you from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-02-01, and that's on MPFADE(1). periodt. 🎀✨💜