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Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#61

Added a folder location, then it crashed. Now it crashes on launch: http://imgur.com/a/Sb2hQ http://imgur.com/a/fKUXO

So add an issue on Github, this isn't the right place.

This is a Show HN...

And before you ask, I'm actually not only preparing the issue details, I'm looking to fix it myself.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#62

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open. For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb , allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

tmux or screen?

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#63
post #62

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open. For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb , allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

tmux or screen?

Or maybe even just tabs?

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#64
I'm definitely going to try this, but I've become fed up with most music players and decided to code my own wrapper around MPV.

I used mpd and cmus for years but the main problem I had with them is that when I changed the directory structure of my music files it would corrupt my playlists. There are a lot of different work arounds but eventually I decided that to build a playlist I wanted to copy the file into a playlist directory instead of just reference the file location in a text file.

Right now I use Ranger (a CLI file manager) as the "front end" to mpv. I run mpv on a unix socket so it can be controlled remotely and I can request things like artist, title, etc.. and use that info in desktop notifications and widgets (if I want). Most of the time I never even look at my music player so this works out really well, and I already have mpv installed for video so I'm finding another way to utilize a program I already have installed instead of using another one.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#65

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open. For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb , allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

Wouldn't a GUI app have much, much more overhead though? Right now, the _Dock_ on my laptop is taking ~250MB on its own. A simple app that allows me to control when my monitors sleep is another 100MB. Both of those are way more that a simple terminal instance of 2.4MB.

Yes. The OP is being sarcastic.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#66
I want to say that I'm really excited for this, because of a very simple reason: I can comfortably browse by album, not just by artist, or at least that's what I'm reading on the project wiki. Most MPD clients do a bad job of letting me do that, and things like MOC don't appear to let me do it at all. As someone with most of her albums being authored by different artists, it looks useful.

I look forward to using it, and thanks for making it free/open source.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#67

I'm definitely going to try this, but I've become fed up with most music players and decided to code my own wrapper around MPV. I used mpd and cmus for years but the main problem I had with them is that when I changed the directory structure of my music files it would corrupt my playlists. There are a lot of different work arounds but eventually I decided that to build a playlist I wanted to copy the file into a play…

I wrote a Rust command-line wrapper around libmpv also: https://github.com/sevagh/surge

Uses `youtube-dl` backend.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#69

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open. For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb , allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

For people who aren't being sarcastic: tmux is great. It even allows you to ssh into your machine, do `tmux attach` at the command prompt, and get all your terminal programs right there, from anywhere in the world.

And when you're done with the ssh session, detach and log out, and everything stays running.

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