Hello, some time ago, I posted about a project of mine supposed to replace mpd and its complexity. The effort was here, but the implementation really lacked polish. Now, though, I'm confident enough to post again since it's in a state that could be useful to others.
The concept is simple, you have newline delimited playlist of directories (albums), a daemon that consumes it via a simple and modular C player made with libao and libflac/libvorbis/libopus (each one being optional at build time) and a client to control the daemon (play, pause, next album, etc...). There's also an optional bunch of tools to handle an album database whose principal goal is to keep a playcount for each entry and thus provide random picking that's still fair (i.e. random but with a forced dispersion). This functionality is what finally decided me to abandon cmus; that and the fact that I didn't really need the curses interface. I tried to keep it portable, but I ended having to depend on flock(1) and chose to use C11, GNU make and gperf for comfort; which limits the use to GNU/Linux and the various modern BSDs. Here's the link for those of you that are interested: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/mus Regards, Hadrien Lacour
