Play random songs within your MPD database.

Project focus is to be as simple and stupid as possible.

This script was inspired by oldlaptop's mprand script, written in Tcl, which isn't simple (in a bad way) nor stupid. Thanks to him for his help and inspiration.

Install the dependency first.

pacman -S python-mpd2

pkg install py311-python-mpd2

Then install the script:

sudo make install

Make sure MPD is running, then run:

mprand

Behavior:

• If MPD is not playing, it will start playback.
• If the playlist is empty, it will enqueue two songs.
• If the playlist already contains songs, it will only enqueue a new one when you reach the last or second-to-last track.

-q, --quiet            Disable logging output
-s, --host HOST        MPD host (default: localhost)
-p, --port PORT        MPD port (default: 6600)
-h, --help             Show help and exit
-P, --password         MPD password (if required)

If you find any bugs or think you know a way to improve my shitty code, feel free to create a pull request or something idk.

You can also find me on irc (libera.chat) @ repoman

and on Telegram @repomansez

python-mpd2

crash if cleaning the playlist more than once, too lazy to fix it rn