The package ivy-mpdel provides an ivy/counsel interface to navigate your Music Player Daemon database (MPD), a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. ivy-mpdel works in cooperation with mpdel, an Emacs client for MPD.
Start by installing mpdel and ivy (you don’t need to use ivy as Emacs’ completion system, just have it installed). Then, clone this git repository. I will ask to get MPDel inside melpa to facilitate installing it.
Start by adding these lines to your init.el file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lib/ivy-mpdel")
(require 'ivy-mpdel)Then, press mpdel-prefix-key (C-x Z by default) followed by i to
get a list of all artists in the MPD database. You can get the same
list by typing i inside any MPDel buffer (such as a playlist).
You can add all songs from any artist by selecting the artist and
pressing M-o a. You can also browse to the artist’s albums by typing
RET (i.e., enter). Add a complete album to the current playlist by
typing M-o a or go to the album’s songs by typing RET. Typing M-o
a on a song will add it to the current playlist while RET shows
information about the song.
Here is a list of keybindings to start ivy-mpdel:
| Binding | Action |
|---|---|
C-x Z i | get a list of artists |
i within MPDel | get a list of artists |
C-x Z I | get a list of stored playlists |
I within MPDel | get a list of stored playlists |
Here is a list of keybindings available within ivy-mpdel:
| Binding | Action |
|---|---|
M-o a | add item to current playlist |
M-o r | replace current playlist with item |
M-o A | add item to stored playlist |
M-o R | replace stored playlist with item |
M-o p | start playing item immediately |
M-o ^ | restart ivy on parent item |
RET | dive into selected item |
See COPYING. Copyright (c) 2018 Damien Cassou.
