MPD-DYNAMIC(1p)

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version 2.004 · 2 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, mpd-dynamic — it's a dynamic playlist for mpd. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (it's the 1p one), so like, it's a perl thing, iykyk. 🦋

✨ VERSION ✨

this is version 2.004. periodt. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so. this program implements a dynamic playlist for MPD, and it's built on top of the Audio::MPD perl module. that's the foundation, that's the lore. 🫶

MPD (music player daemon) is a cool music player, no cap, but the way it just... lacks a dynamic playlist?? tragic. and a dynamic playlist is, per definition, a playlist that changes automatically over time. so iconic. in particular, it will:

  • remove already played songs (keeping at most a given number of songs)
  • add new songs to the playlist so it never falls short of songs

and listen — since mpd is a daemon needing no gui to work, mpd-dynamic is also a daemon. that is, it will fork and do all its work from the background. main character energy fr fr. this way, you can fire mpd and mpd-dynamic and forget completely about your music — especially since mpd-dynamic is a low-resource program — it will just be there! :-) 😭💖

🌈 USAGE 🌈

mpd-dynamic [options]

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🎀 General behaviour 🎀

you can customize the usage of mpd-dynamic with the following options:

  • -o[ld] <old> — number of old tracks to keep in the backlog. defaults to 10.
  • -n[ew] <new> — number of new tracks to keep in the to-be-played playlist. defaults to 10.
  • -s[leep] <sleep> — time spent sleeping (in seconds) before checking if playlist should be updated. defaults to 5 seconds.
  • -d[ebug] — run mpd-dynamic in debug mode. in particular, the program will not daemonize itself. defaults to false.
  • -e[ncoding] <encoding> — print debug messages with this encoding. since mpd-dynamic is meant to be a silent daemon, this option will not be used outside of debug mode. defaults to "utf-8".
  • --version
  • --usage
  • --help
  • --man

print the usual program information 👑

note however that those flags are optional: since mpd-dynamic comes with some sane defaults, you can fire mpd-dynamic as is. no config, no stress, just vibes. ✨

⭐ Ratings ⭐

you can also take advantage of ratings if you want. with those options, songs need to have at least a given rating (or no rating yet) to be inserted — this way, you will only listen to your favorite songs! obsessed. 💜

ratings can be created / updated with mpd-rate.

note that if you supply a non-existant rating db-file, the rating mechanism will be ignored. 🫣

the following options control the rating mechanism:

  • -r[atings] <ratings> — the path of a db file with the ratings per song. the keys are the song path (relative to MPD root), and the value is an integer (the rating). defaults to "~/.mpd/ratings.db".
  • -m[in[imum]] <min> — the minimum rating for a song to be inserted in the playlist. defaults to 4.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jerome Quelin

this software is copyright (c) 2007 by Jerome Quelin.

this is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

k that's literally it bestie, go stream ur music 🌸💖 ok bye, this was MPD-DYNAMIC(1p) from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-08 — slay, ate, no crumbs. 🦋✨

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