How about we revive this one.


Lately I've been looking for a way to play local music files. Previously I've used many of the solutions mentioned earlier in this thread (mpd+mpc etc) however I am interested in what you are all using these days?

Ever since spotify arrived I've been subscribed to that and thanks to the curses based spotify client ncspot I've had no need to store music on my hdd.

I've just begun growing a local music library again and am somewhat disatisfied with the long list of options available. I dont want mpd on my system anymore. I dont think I need it. I don't even really need a full fledged client.

What I really wan't is to be able to play music files with mpv/mpg123/sox/whatever, using a shell script. Something I can pipe through fzf would be sweet, with the ability to select multiple files perhaps in order to create playlists.

For example, I use a pure sh terminal file manager called shfm (similar to nnn or fff). This was written by Dylan who also wrote fff, although the fork I'm using has also implemented core utils for cp/mv'ing files etc. Ideally I'd just hack shfm to be able to play multiple selected files using whatever player I want, but I think a simple script should do the trick.

Me being fairly sh illiterate (when it comes to writing scripts at least) means I find it hard to put this together. I wonder if something this minimal already exists. If so, I haven't found it yet.

But I digress.

What do you guys use these days?