Pipeplayer

Pipeplayer is a simple music daemon. It uses libmpg123 to decode files and libao to play sound. You can control it with named pipe (FIFO).

Before using this

This program requires playlist file which is plain text of songs in the same directory. For example, you have folder with this files: song1.mp3, song_2.mp3, 4.mp3 and 56.mp3. Your playlist file shoul'd look like:

song1.mp3
song_2.mp3
4.mp3
56.mp3

Tip: cd into folder with music and run command ls -1N | tee playlist to automatically generate playlist file. Note that order may differ.

Usage

First, you need to check your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable

echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

If you see no output, then you need to export variable:

On bash, zsh etc.:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$HOME/.local/runtime"

On fish:

set -x XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "$HOME/.local/runtime"

Then make sure directory $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR exists:

mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

Then, you can start daemon either during start of your desktop environment or window manager or even in tty with this command:

pipeplayer

Note: add & at the end of command to run process in background.

Or if you prefer old way:

pipeplayer /path/to/named/pipe

Now you can send commands to created named pipe like this:

echo l$HOME/Music/playlist > "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pipeplayer"

Note: change "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pipeplayer" to path to named pipe if you don't use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable.

Available commands

• l/path/to/playlist — load playlist from /path/to/playlist
• b — play previous song
• f — play next song
• e — exit pipeplayer
• p — pause
• c — clear playlist (don't exit)

Also, you can find all commands in man page. Run man pipeplayer after installation.

Installation

You need a few things:

• git
• C compiler, such as gcc, clang or tcc
• make
• libmpg123
• libao

Install that stuff, clone this repository, cd into it and simply run make and sudo (or doas) make install:

git clone https://git.disroot.org/elijah.dev/pipeplayer.git
cd pipeplayer
make
sudo make install

If you prefer gcc, then run make CC=gcc instead of make. Also, if you prefer clang, run make CC=clang.

Replace make with make NOTIFICATION=0 if you want to disable notification. Make sure you change NOTIFICATION variable in config.h.

Here some tips for installing dependencies on some distros:

Archlinux and arch-based distros

pacman -Syu --needed tcc mpg123 libao

• Install libnotify package for notification support

Guides for other distibutions will appear in future. If you know one, feel free to add.

TODO

• Add pause command
• Add clear playlist command
• Add navigation inside song
• Add notification support

Bugs

If you have found bugs, you can open issue or contact me via email elijah.dev@disroot.org