Console based MPD client

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Fri Jul 21 13:43:41 UTC 2017


Lars here.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 04:53:23PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here. Have you tried "mpc" rather than "ncmpc"?  It's much more
> input/output driven and should be more accessible, though perhaps a
> bit more terse.  That said, it should be amenable to setting up
> aliases for your commonly-used commands.

Thank you. Yes, I looked at it. In ncmpc I can choose one artist, and
brows through all the albums. Is there an equivalent command in mpc to
list only the albums from one artist? And only list them one time ...?

Thanks, Lars

> On July 20, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Hi, List! Lars Bjørndal here.
> > 
> > I'm looking for a good MPD client. I found ncmpc, which looked
> > promising. The problem I have, though, is that lines longer than 80
> > characters, is just cut off. For instance I choose Artist, and
> > select one. Then I'd like to choose album. But I have sereval
> > albums starting with the same phrase, but I need to read the whole
> > line to choose the right one.
> > 
> > Ncmpcpp doesn't honor the hardware cursor, and so it seems to be
> > unusable with braille/BRLTTY.
> > 
> > Do any of you have another suggestions?
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
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