Practical Music Search Ncurses based client for Music Player Daemon
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Ncurses based client for Music Player Daemon Practical Music Search is a free and open source command-line utility for Music Player Daemon (MPD). Practical Music Search aims to be accessible and highly configurable, with a light but powerful interface. Here are some key features of "Practical Music Search": · Simple and powerful playlist management: playlist, library and custom playlists. · Custom key bindings, colors and columns. · Command-mode, much like Vim. · Copy songs between playlists. · Create, save and delete playlists. · Quick movement: jump to next artist or next album in a keystroke. · Add or play entire albums or artists at once. · Linear or random playing through any playlist. · Option to have playback following cursor position. · Adds repeat-1 functionality. · Jump to currently playing song. · Quicksearch. · Windowlist to display all playlists. · Help screen to show all key bindings. · Regular expression matching. Requirements: · Music Player Daemon (MPD) What's New in This Release: Kim Tore Jensen: · 2009-08-24: fixed: playstring would report playing random songs even if playlist had more songs queued. · 2009-08-21: fixed: #2841277, collapse of spaces and separation of equals signs in topbar lines. · 2009-08-18: changed: default colors made less obtrusive: borders are black, switched topbar borders off by default. · 2009-08-18: fixed: in centered scroll mode, songs were invisible until window was filled completely. · 2009-07-16: fixed: crash when pressing 'next' in random mode with no current song. · 2009-07-02: added: 'topbar.clear' option in config file, works as 'cleartopbar'. · 2009-07-01: fixed: scroll mode 'relative' was not working correctly. · 2009-07-01: added: options are now displayed using 'set option'. · 2009-07-01: fixed: cleaned up some errors in the man page. · 2009-06-30: added: 'bright' colors now aliased by 'light'. · 2009-06-14: added: 'reconnectdelay' option controls how long pms waits before reconnecting to a lost server. · 2009-06-14: fixed: pms would not start if the configuration file was missing. · 2009-06-14: fixed: pms crashed if the connection was reset. · 2009-06-04: removed: ghost window introduced in 0.40.6. Bart Nagel: · 2009-08-30: added: add-all command, which adds all songs on the currently visible list to the playlist · 2009-08-24: fixed: when changing volume, ensure we're asking for a volume in 0~100 · 2009-08-23: added: system bells when trying to scroll or move off the edges of the list · 2009-08-23: added/changed: boolean options are now set with :set , unset with :set no, toggled with :set ! or :set inv (:toggle command was removed). all options can be queried with :set ?, non-booleans can still be queried with :set · 2009-08-23: changed: when setting options, : is accepted in place of =, as in vim · 2009-08-23: changed: took dots out of topbar option names -- now topbarclear, topbarspace, topbarborders and topbarvisible · 2009-08-21: added: boolean topbar.space option which when true leaves a blank row between the topbar and playlist windows · 2009-08-01: changed: added hyphens to certain commands for uniformity: quick-find, add-to, toggle-play, clear-topbar, clear-selection · 2009-08-01: added: center-cursor command, default binding z (like vim's zz command) · 2009-07-29: added: scroll position readout as in vim · 2009-07-26: added: more mouse actions (see manpage) · 2009-07-24: added: scroll-up and scroll-down commands (do the same as move-up and move-down unless in "normal" scroll mode), bound to ^Y and ^E · 2009-07-24: added: "normal" vim-like scroll mode, which scrolls only when the cursor would go off the top or bottom of the window, and added "scrolloff" option as in vim to customize this. "normal" scroll mode is now default · 2009-07-16: added: (poor) mousewheel support · 2009-07-15: added: clicking header line ("Library"/"Playlist") switches to next window · 2009-07-14: added: some functional mouse support. click in topbar to toggle play/pause. in playlist, click to place cursor, control-click to additionally toggle selection, double click to place cursor and play · 2009-07-14: changed: values for boolean options are now case-insensitive · 2009-07-14: changed: nextafterselect option is renamed to nextafteraction and also affects adding to playlist. · 2009-07-09: added: :!shellcommand output is shown until a key is pressed · 2009-07-09: fixed: sort names now imported from MPD properly · 2009-07-09: changed: artistsortname and albumartistsortname are now artistsort and albumartistsort for code and config uniformity · 2009-07-08: added: ^L binding for redraw · 2009-07-06: added: :!shellcommand support and libraryroot config var

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