Node frontend for mplayer with Winamp key bindings.

Can play mp3 files from the console.

z - x - c - v - b is the bottom row on your keyboard.

npm install -g nplay

Installing dependencies:

• Linux: apt-get install mplayer
• OSX: none, uses the builtin afplayer command
• Windows: download mplayer, save mplayer.exe in the same directory where nplay.js is.

I tried using VLC on Windows for playback, but their command line interface is a totally broken and messed up: songs get randomly skipped, the player sometimes just exits without playing, the exit codes are not helpful and the output suppression options do not work as documented etc. - which is why I recommend using mplayer for playback on Windows.

z - Previous
x - Play
c - Pause
v - Stop
b - Next
s - Shuffle mode
r - Repeat mode
f - Filter mode (filtered by rating >= 3)
1...5 - Rate song
j - Jump to file by filename search

You can pass paths (to directories or to files) to nplay to play the files. Directories are traversed recursively.

nplay /home/m/mp3

When no arguments are passed, nplay reads ~/.nplay.json and uses the paths set there. The idea is that you are mostly listening to the same library of files:

{
  "directories": [ "/home/m/mp3" ]
}

Jump to with autocompletion and song selection using up/down/enter keys:

Partial matches are supported, separate terms with a space.

--ls produces a list of files in the following format: rating,filename. E.g.:

5,/home/m/mp3/foo.mp3

This is useful for doing things managing files based on their rating:

nplay --ls | grep "^[4,5]," | sed 's/.,//g' | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} echo {}

Above, you might replace echo {} with cp {} /media/usb to copy files or rm {} to delete the file.

Note that the xargs -I {} is for OSX compatibility, and -p makes xargs confirm each command with y/n.

The random playlist is pre-generated when the mode is started, so if you skip past a good song, you can go back to it.

Filters songs to only rated ones.