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README for mpdevil
mpdevil is focused on playing your local music directly instead of managing playlists or playing network streams. So it neither supports saving playlists nor restoring them. Therefore mpdevil is mainly a music browser which aims to be easy to use. mpdevil dosen't store any client side database of your music library. Instead all tags and covers get presented to you in real time. So you'll never see any outdated information in your browser. mpdevil strongly relies on tags.
Features
- play songs without doubleclicking
- search songs in your music library
- manage multiple mpd servers
- filter by genre
- control with media keys
- displays covers
- sends notifications on title change
- fetches lyrics from the web (based on PyLyrics) (broken since 21.9.2020 lyricwiki is offline)
- MPRIS interface (based on mpDris2)
See: https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil/wiki/Usage
Package Installation
See: https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil/releases/latest
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS:
- Download the .deb file
- Open a console
- Navigate into download dir
- Run:
sudo apt install ./mpdevil_VERSION.deb
Arch, Manjaro (see: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpdevil/):
- Download the PKGBUILD from the AUR
- Open a console
- Navigate into download dir
- Run:
makepkg -sirc
- Alternatively install it with an AUR helper
Gentoo (see: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository):
- Download the .ebuild
- Place it into your local tree
- Generate manifest file
- Run:
emerge mpdevil
Building
Build dependencies:
- DistUtilsExtra
Dependencies:
- Gtk3
- Python3
Python modules:
- mpd (python-mpd2 >=1.0)
- gi (Gtk, Gio, Gdk, GdkPixbuf, Pango, GObject, GLib, Notify)
- requests
- bs4 (beautifulsoup)
- dbus
Run:
git clone https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil.git
cd mpdevil
sudo python3 setup.py install
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache
sudo update-desktop-database
Translation
mpdevil is currently available in English and German. If you speek another language you can easily translate mpdevil by using poedit
. Just import po/mpdevil.pot
from this repo into poedit
. To test your translation copy the new .po
file into the po
directory of your cloned mpdevil repo and proceed as described in the Building section. To get your translation integrated into mpdevil just send me an e-mail or create a pull request. Link to poedit
: https://poedit.net/