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I integrated the easy-command line into GMPC as a small command line.

You can use this command line to quickly play a song, search for something, etc. This was already available in a popup, but I preferred to integrate it in the main GUI. Let me know if you think I should add more commands to it.

Commands:

(might not be up2date)

Switch

• switch play queue: Switch to play queue

• switch metadata browser: Switch to the metadata browser
• switch search: Switch to the search browser

Main

• quit: Quit gmpc
• hide: Hide gmpc
• show: Show gmpc
• show notification: Show the tray-icon notification. (if enabled)

Playback

• play: start playback
• pause: pause playback
• next: next song
• prev: previous song
• stop: stop playback

• random (on

  off): Random (on

  off)

• repeat (on

  off): Repeat (on

  off)

• volume [+-]?[0-9]+: Volume
• mute: Mute
• play .*: Play

0.18.1:

• seek hh:mm:ss: Seek to position
• seek +hh:mm:ss: Seek relative to current position
• seek -hh:mm:ss: Seek backwards relative to current position

Requires gmpc 0.18.1 and mpd 0.15.0:

• repeat current song: Repeats the currently playing song forever
• stop after current song: Stops playback after current song.

• consume (on

  off)

• single (on

  off)

Play-Queue Manipulation

• add .*: Add
• replace .*: Replace
• Clear play queue: Clear play queue

0.18.1:

• Crop current song: Clears the whole play queue without removing the current playing song.
• url [a-Z]://.*: add url.

Search

• search database .*: Search database
• search playlist .*: Search playlist

Metadata Browser

• show current song: Show the page of the current playing song.
• show current artist: Show the page of the current playing artist.
• show current album: Show the page of the current playing album.

Query’s

The syntax consist of the following:

<field>=<value>

This will search for value in the field field.

The following fields are supported:

• artist
• album
• title
• track
• Name (applies to streams)
• Genre
• Date
• Composer
• Performer
• Comment
• Disc
• Filename
• AlbuArtist
• Any (searches all the above fields)

This search is tokenized and case insensitive, so for example:

artist=eric clapton

Will match both “eric clapton”, “Clapton, Eric”. To stop this tokenization wrap the values in* ()*. For example:

artist=(Eric Clapton)

Will not match “Clapton, Eric”.

 

To refine you search multiple queries can be concattenated:

for example:

artist=Eric Clapton album=Slowhand

There is also an option to run multiple queries at once by using the or operator **

**:

artist=Eric Clapton || artist=Norah Jones

This will return all songs by Eric Clapton and Norah Jones.

Chaining

You can chain multiple commands by using ‘;‘

Key bindings:

• Escape: Close the command line.
• Backspace: (if empty) close the command line.
• Enter: Execute the command.