MPD
Music player deamon.
Setup
Install the required software:
sudo aura -S mpd ncmpcpp mpdscribble
sudo aura -Aa mpd-mpris
Set up the required files. See my dotfiles for mpd/ncmpcpp here.
touch ~/.config/mpd/{database,log,pid,state,sticker.sql}
Configure mpdscribble (~/.mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf) with your last.fm credentials:
username = LAST_FM_USERNAME
password = LAST_FM_PASSWORD
Start the services (use enable
to run them at boot)
systemctl --user start mpd mpdscribble mpd-mpris
Playerctl
Playerctl is a CLI controller for a number of music players. I have some keybindings in i3 to interact with this.
sudo aura -S playerctl
Ensure that the mpd-mpris.service
is running and check available players with
playerctl -l
. If anything is returned it should work.