background-music

Schedule music to play in the background. Cron for music.

Detects changes to the config file immeidately. Plays music with pygame. AI-generated and unreviewed - but I use it.

Motivation

Plan the music you want to play ahead of time so you actually listen to it. Idem vs ipse vs attention.

I don't like having to mess with my phone to play music because it a distraction machine. An alternative to algorithms.

I have this running on a raspberry pi 2 with a usb a dongle.

Alternatives and prior work

There is a tool called musicron focused on playing projects. I could not find the home page. cmus is a command line tool which has a playlist and a remote contro.

You could use spotify and just play music with algorithms or use your phone.

Installation

pipx install background-music

Usage

Write config ike so

9-10 file.wav
10-11 random:file2.wav,file3.wav
11-13 paylist.txt # work through the playlist
13-14 random:playlist.txt

Mon 18:30-18:40  monday.wav
Tue 18:30-18:40  tuesday.wav
Wed,Thu 18:30-18:40  mid-week.wav

Then run: bgmus config

continuing - keep on playing through a playlist or direction between different sessions continuing+random - keep on playing through a playlist then randomize until the session ends.

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Remote control

It can be convenient to pause playback for a period of time, for example when taking a phone call. Or play another song. For these use cases a remote control is applied.

bgmus play song.wav plays a song bgmus pause 1h stops playing for an hour. I deliberately do not have an indefinite resume command bgmus resume resumes playing if there is a pause.

If you want to use and control multiple bgmus instances you can use --socket both on invocation and when using a remote control.

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Hacking

I encouraage your to fork this and call it bgmusic-something. You can then tell me about this fork on github as a PR and I will loot your features :D and cite you.

About me

I make tools for reading and agency.

I also mess around with music and music technology and home automation in my spare time. If this sounds interesting you might like to check out r/musicaltreadmilldesk about my music desk.