ncmpcpp - improved ncmpc with some new features

[unK]

I would like to present you ncmpc++, clone of ncmpc rewritten from scratch in C++ with some new features ncmpc doesn't have.

New features:

• - easy to use search screen
  - tag editor
  - possibility of going to any position in currently playing track without rewinding/fastforwarding
  - multi coloured main window
  - songs can be added to playlist more than once

It also updates tags of songs even if their names didn't change. That's for starters, because lack of these things in ncmpc annoyed me the most, but if you have other ideas/feature request, just tell me. I also didn't implement some features from ncmpc which are redundant for me, but again, if you want something, I'm waiting for feedback.

Screenshots:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1043/skrin0ci9.jpg
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9486/skrin1os1.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/656/skrin2tg9.jpg

Ebuilds are available in mpd overlay.

Cheers.

[Zaunmayrchris]

ahoi!!
i tried to install ncmpc++ with this ebuild but it did not work. i get the following output:

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Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Yes
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1 to /
 * ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                                  [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * checking ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                                                                                                                                [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1/work
bzip2: /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1/distdir/ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Das sieht nicht wie ein „tar“-Archiv aus.  [[This does not look like an tar-archiv]]
tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehende Fehler. [[tar: error on exit, caused by previous error]]
 * 
 * ERROR: media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2062:  Called unpack 'src_unpack'
 *               ebuild.sh, line  356:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                                      assert "$myfail"
 *  The die message:
 *   failure unpacking ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/ncmpcpp-0.1/temp/environment'.
 * This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage/'
 * 

i am new to gentoo and this portage thing is still a kind of mistery for me, so please excuse me if my problem is too silly.. anyway i would be glad about a hint.

cu
CHristoph

[unK]

This is strange. It unpacks for me and afaik it also does for others. Have you tried to remove ncmpcpp-0.1.tar.bz2 from /usr/portage/distfiles and download it again?

[Zaunmayrchris]

ahoi.
sry was my mistake. i had to emerge with GENTOO_MIRRORS=". otherwise emerge tried to get the ncmpcpp source from my gentoo mirror and this mirror provided an html-error-page, emerge named this page *tar.bz2 and tried to unpack it.

now it works

cu
CHristoph

[unK]

I'm glad it works. Btw I added ebuild for live version (update in first post).

[avx]

Thanks for your work, tags...finally

Some feature-wishes:

- if possible, allow fetching of metadata from a webservice(i.e. freedb)
- make it possible to completly hide the "Playlist..." and "Playing..."-line

- maybe another kind of navigation:
I'm sorting my albums in folders like 0-9, a-z on the top-level, then artist name, then album-name, so I'd love to have something like this:

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[0-9] A B C D E ... Z (horizontal, line1)
Artist Artist Artist Artist Artist (horizontal, line2, if neccessary, linebreak and another one)
Song1
Song2
...
Songn

- maybe a hideable pane on the side/bottom, which shows some information(metadata) about the current song/artist(either by metadata or maybe by something like wikipedia or the like).

Thx again,
ph

[yngwin]

My first impressions are very good. Nice work!

I've added the live git ebuild to berkano overlay.

[unK]

- if possible, allow fetching of metadata from a webservice(i.e. freedb)
- maybe a hideable pane on the side/bottom, which shows some information(metadata) about the current song/artist(either by metadata or maybe by something like wikipedia or the like).

Fetching information from the Internet about artist (or maybe even similar artists, eg. from last.fm) sounds interesting. I have no idea how to do this, but I'll do some research ;)

- make it possible to completly hide the "Playlist..." and "Playing..."-line

So only playlist and progressbar would be visible? Or only a playlist? But there must be one free line for messages/user input (or at least the latter) anyway.

- maybe another kind of navigation:
I'm sorting my albums in folders like 0-9, a-z on the top-level, then artist name, then album-name, so I'd love to have something like this:

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[0-9] A B C D E ... Z (horizontal, line1)
Artist Artist Artist Artist Artist (horizontal, line2, if neccessary, linebreak and another one)
Song1
Song2
...
Songn

I don't get it ;p Does it have to be in a few columns?

My first impressions are very good. Nice work!

I've added the live git ebuild to berkano overlay.

Ok, thanks. But the ebuild you added is outdated, please update it (working one is in first post). Ebuilds will be also available in mpd overlay.

And there is version bump, 0.1 -> 0.1.1.

Visible changes:

• bug with highlighting playlist fixed (it happened rarely, but it did)
  taglib support is now optional (enabled -> tag editor, disabled -> tag info)
  more elements of interface can have different color

Besides some improvements and clean-ups in the source code.

[yngwin]

Updated my ebuild with taglib useflag. Thanks.

[avx]

Fetching information from the Internet about artist (or maybe even similar artists, eg. from last.fm) sounds interesting. I have no idea how to do this, but I'll do some research

You could have a look at amaroK's source, IIRC the needed functions for this features are written in ruby, so it shouldn't be too hard to understand the principles behind it.

So only playlist and progressbar would be visible? Or only a playlist? But there must be one free line for messages/user input (or at least the latter) anyway.

Well, for my needs, I don't need the "Playing: Honky Tonk - FunkyMonkey"-thingy, so I currently hide it by setting it's color to the terms-background. Same goes for the mode-line on top. Sure, there needs to be some kind of input-line, but the other things could be optional in my eyes.

I don't get it ;p Does it have to be in a few columns?

I'm open for suggestions, but the current navigation is not so "wicked", imho. It could also be two-pane(left/right) with i.e. a tree-view of Folders/Artists on the left and the songs on the right.

What in my eyes would also be awesome, is some kind of a "show-cover". Now, AFAIK there's no real way to show it in the term itself, but there could be a function to open the cover elsewhere, so i.e. press 'c' and the cover shows in feh or something like that.

[unK]

Well, for my needs, I don't need the "Playing: Honky Tonk - FunkyMonkey"-thingy, so I currently hide it by setting it's color to the terms-background. Same goes for the mode-line on top. Sure, there needs to be some kind of input-line, but the other things could be optional in my eyes.

something like this?

I'm open for suggestions, but the current navigation is not so "wicked", imho. It could also be two-pane(left/right) with i.e. a tree-view of Folders/Artists on the left and the songs on the right.

I can add another screen with 3 columns: [artists][current artist's albums][current album's songs], Ario has something like that.

[avx]

something like this?

Yep, seems good to me.

I can add another screen with 3 columns: [artists][current artist's albums][current album's songs], Ario has something like that.

Like in this picture, but without the bottom-pane? If so, would be very appreciated by me

I don't know, if it would make sense, but doing things with the current playlist would be nice. I.e. export it to a text/html-file, stuff all current songs into an archive(bz2, rar, whatever), create an iso from it, etc.pp. I know some guys, including me, who already use something like that based on a script around mpc, but maybe it could be usefull to the "pure-users" aka "I can't/don't want to write scripts".

I'm really glad, you're pushing this code further, especially since evad seems not to be too active.

[unK]

something like this?

Yep, seems good to me.

I can add another screen with 3 columns: [artists][current artist's albums][current album's songs], Ario has something like that.

Like in this picture, but without the bottom-pane? If so, would be very appreciated by me

both already in git.

[unK]

ncmpcpp-0.1.2 released.

changes:

• parts of interface are now hideable
  new screen - media library
  general optimization - it runs much faster now, especially with big playlist
  new option: crop (deletes all songs from playlist except now playing one)
  other fixes, clean-ups etc.

cheers.

[truc]

wow, have to try this one!! thank you

[ocin]

would be nice to have the clock screen back :)

[unK]

Haha, are you from #mpd? I don't think that's good idea. It's redundant.

Btw lyrics screen has been added to git. As live ebuild in overlays is outdated for a while, you can use the one from first post.

[ocin]

Haha, are you from #mpd? I don't think that's good idea. It's redundant.

Nah it's not redundant.. When listening to music I always switch to the clock screen. It looks good (especially with a tiling wm, which I use) and I know what time/date it is. A friend also said this. Please be nice and bring it back (maybe as compile option).

[unK]

Hmm, ok, if you like it, I can reimplement this.

[yngwin]

i like it too

[yoshi314]

do you need to use git mpd version with it?

strangely, i cannot connect to mpd (it has default port settings) on localhost, whereas ncmpc works without issues.

[unK]

News: Big change in git. I dropped libmpd dependency. Updated ebuild in first post.

do you need to use git mpd version with it?

strangely, i cannot connect to mpd (it has default port settings) on localhost, whereas ncmpc works without issues.

No.

Regarding connection, fetch current version from git, it now displays more information, why it can't connect. Also try

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export MPD_HOST=127.0.0.1

before launching ncmpcpp, that's the most common reason why it cannot connect.

[unK]

version 0.2 released.

full list of changes available here.

ebuilds updated.

[unK]

ncmpcpp-0.2.1 released.

changes:

• * support for composer, performer and disc tag
  * customizable keybindings
  * "add" option added
  * example config files are installed automatically now
  * "repeat one song" mode added (works only if ncmpcpp is running)
  * minor fixes, improvements etc.

ebuilds in mpd overlay updated. enjoy.

[darklegion]

I have a feature request: I would like to have the ability to select single or multiple files in a playlist, in any order, and then be able to perform functions on them, such as move them to a certain position in the playlist or remove them from the playlist.Preferably, it would work in the same way that cplay does.I believe cplay also allows this in the file select screen, which would also be a nice feature.If this feature already exists, then forget it, but last time I used the official ncmpc and ncmpc-tradiaz you could only select one file at a time and you could only move the file up once or down once for each keypress (and with an awkward keypress to boot)