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Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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... and there's no support for playlists. So, there's actually no control over what it plays.

I guess you can put your wanted songs in a “playlist” directory and define it in the config?

Yeah, I'm going to re-organize my entire music collection to fit the player's limitations. Not. Going. To. Happen.

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? Looks like a cool project at first glance, and the code is really nice. But I don't fully get what a " background" music player is? Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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post #13

Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? Looks like a cool project at first glance, and the code is really nice. But I don't fully get what a " background" music player is? Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.

Hey, nice project, I enjoyed reading your code! I do the same thing and wrote a terminal mp3 player a while back in python (mpy3).

I really like the idea though of just having an "on/off" switch and not thinking about what's playing. Feels like a fun implementation- will definitely give it a go!

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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post #13

Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this? Looks like a cool project at first glance, and the code is really nice. But I don't fully get what a " background" music player is? Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.

Seems like a really great way to play more passive longer-running kinds of study music/sounds like coffeeshop noise or lofi-hiphop!

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you can put your wanted songs in a “playlist” directory and define it in the config?

Yeah, I'm going to re-organize my entire music collection to fit the player's limitations. Not. Going. To. Happen.

Symlinks could work, I guess.

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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post #11
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you can put your wanted songs in a “playlist” directory and define it in the config?

Yeah, I'm going to re-organize my entire music collection to fit the player's limitations. Not. Going. To. Happen.

sounds like it's Not. For. You.

Re: Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player

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nice work! can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse "? I also recommend: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire for your further development I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

Hey! Yeah, using cargo install --git should work. You should just make sure that ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH.
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