Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X • Hacker News Board

- system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible

- possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to display the current song (some of my music has long, quiet intros, and I'm not sure what song is playing in the beginning), this might go against your idea of minimalist though

- shuffle functionality

But it looks great so far!

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by TomasSedovic » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 11:27 AM UTC

Wish you put more thought into the name, it being commandline and all. Hard to type on qwerty AND dvorak...

Other than that, looks interesting.

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by shrikant » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 11:37 AM UTC

In response to TomasSedovic (I don't see "reply" links for some reason): "dhun" is the Hindi word for "tune". So I believe some thought did go into the name :)

Edit: "dhun" has U as in 'put', not as in 'gut'.

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by ianboo » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 12:08 PM UTC

$ gem install dhun Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gemcutter.org ERROR: could not find dhun locally or in a repository

hm ...

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by dehowell » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 12:52 PM UTC

Anyone who likes this should also check out mpd:

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

More work to configure, but also works on Linux. There's a wonderful ncurses interface called ncmpc as well. mpd + ncmpc has been my iTunes in a terminal window for years.

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by piranha » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 1:25 PM UTC

Hm, seems that using `mdfind` is rather slow. Probably using Spotlight's API via RubyCocoa/MacRuby will be faster?

Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

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Post by GeneralMaximus » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 1:50 PM UTC

sil3ntmac wrote: post #4

I've been looking for something like this, here are some suggestions: - system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible - possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to disp…

system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible

This worked fine on Leopard, but on Snow Leopard the play button on the MacBook keyboard just launches iTunes. I usually chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes to suppress this annoying behavior (my default music player is Songbird).