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📦 version 2.6.0, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, meet plattenalbum — it's a Client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) ✨ it's giving "your music library but make it cute and browsable" and honestly? obsessed. this is the plattenalbum man page and we're gonna go through the whole thing together, no skips 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plattenalbum

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run it. no flags, no drama, no cap 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

the main character of Plattenalbum is the browser, where you can browse your music hierarchically by artists and albums 🦋 like a lil family tree but for songs and it's gorgeous.

🎵 Album View

click on an album in the browser to open the album view 👑

  • wanna play or append the whole album? use the buttons at the top, bestie, they're right there 🌟
  • Click left on a song → it plays immediately, no waiting, main character energy fr fr 🔥
  • Click middle on a song → it gets appended to the playlist 💜
  • Click right on a song → a context menu pops open, hello options 🫶
  • Drag a song to the playlist → it gets enqueued at an arbitrary location. yes, arbitrary. you pick exactly where it lands, iconic behavior ✨

simply type to search for artists and songs 💫 and when you click on a result, it takes you straight to that item in the browser. it's giving "teleport but make it musical" 🧚

📜 Playlist

  • Click left → play a song immediately 🎶
  • Click middle → remove a song from the playlist (bye bestie 😭)
  • Click right → open a context menu
  • Drag&Drop → reorder tracks, because the order is yours to control 💅

⏱️ Progress Bar

click on the time indicators next to the progress bar to add loop marks 🔁 lowkey a genius feature ngl

🎀 Main Album Cover

the main cover acts as an additional window handle 🪟 yes really — grab the album art, move the window. it's multifunctional and we stan 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Danial Behzadi (dani.behzi@ubuntu.com) — thank you for this, genuinely 🫶

reminder bestie: no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses here — this page is just vibes and clicking 💖

and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this was version 2.2.1, dated 02 Dec 2024, and yes it ate. mwah 💋🎀🦋✨

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