cplay-ng 2.0.1

A curses front-end for various audio players

Description

cplay-ng is a curses front-end for various audio players. It aims to provide a power-user-friendly interface with simple filelist and playlist control. cplay-ng is written in Python and can use either pyncurses or the standard curses module.

The original cplay is no longer maintained. This fork aims to maintaining the original code as well as keeping it up to date with recent developments (e.g. python3) and adding new features.

Requirements

• python

• pyncurses

• pyalsaaudio (optional) For Alsa mixer support

• python-oss (optional) For OSS mixer support

• mutagen (optional) For metadata support (IDv3 etc.)

• python-magic (optional) For better filetype recognition

For playback either install mplayer, gst123 or one or more of the following players:

• mpg321

• ogg123

• mpg123

• splay

• madplay

• mikmod

• xmp

• sox

• speex

• timidity

Installation

pip install cplay-ng

Usage

cplay-ng [-d <filename>] [-nrRm] [ file | dir | playlist ] ...

-d  Enable debugging output to <filename>.

-n  Start in restricted mode: No shell commands, changing directory,
    goto, or saving playlists.

-r  Start in repeat mode.

-R  Start in random mode.

-m  Switch channels (oss only)

When in doubt, press 'h' for a friendly help page.

You can also use cnq-ng to remote-control a running cplay-ng.

Configuration

If you would like to change options passed to the actual players just edit the PLAYERS list in the cplay-ng script or put the PLAYERS definition in either ~/.cplayrc or /etc/cplayrc. If one of these files is available, it is executed by cplay-ng before initialization.

Macros are defined using the MACRO dictionary, where the key is a key and the value is a string of cplay-ng input. For example, the following would make ,d delete tagged (or current) files:

MACRO['d'] = '!rm "$@"\n'

Note, there is currently no version control for the rc-file!

Miscellaneous

A playlist can contain URLs, but the playlist itself will have to be local. For mpeg streaming, splay is recommended.

It is also possible to pipe a playlist to cplay-ng, as stdin will be reopened on startup unless it is attached to a tty.

Remote control is available via /var/tmp/cplay\_control-$USER. Create this with mkfifo and see lircrc for examples.

The shell command gets the full path of either all tagged items or the current item as positional arguments.