Hm, seems that using `mdfind` is rather slow. Probably using Spotlight's API via RubyCocoa/MacRuby will be faster?
I am not using the Spotlight API via mdfind. I wrote a C extension. Care to elaborate on the issue (file a bug maybe)?
Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
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Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#12I'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…
Shuffle is something that can be done easily.
As for the other requests, you are right it may not be quite minimalist :). But will keep them in mind.
Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#13Why would anyone want to use this over mpg123? It is already "minimalist" running from the command line and can donwhatever you need it to do. I use mpg123 all the time, it's great
Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#14Why would anyone want to use this over mpg123? It is already "minimalist" running from the command line and can donwhatever you need it to do. I use mpg123 all the time, it's great
Don't you have to give mpg123 an explicit path to an mp3 file? dhun lets you play mp3 files by searching for them, through the Spotlight database.
Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#15Anyone 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.
It was actually a few annoyances with MPD that led me to create Dhun. This was a while ago so things might a have changed. But my main grievances were:
* Installation on OS X wasnt very straightforward. I think the MacPorts version was broken and I had to do some stuff manually to get it to install
* Some of my ID3 tags and MP3 files were not recognised properly, even though they worked fine on iTunes.
Re: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#16$ 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 ...
You you should update to the latest version of Rubygems.
gem update --systemRe: Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X
#17$ 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 ...
You you should update to the latest version of Rubygems. gem update --system
Thats my first gem ;) Thanks for the help!