Console based MPD client

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Tim replying.  To add an album, search for the tracks by album-name

  $ mpc search album "crystal planet"

and pipe that list of files to "mpc add" to add them to the playlist:

  $ mpc search album "crystal planet" | mpc add

Hope this helps,

-tim

On July 22, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Lars here.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Linux for blind general
> discussion wrote:
> > Tim here.
> >   
> > > 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?   
> > 
> > Sure.  The "mpc search" command spits out the filename, but you
> > can use the "--format"/"-f" parameter to specify the field/format
> > you want, so you can specify that you just want the album from
> > each one. It will print one for each matching MP3 file, but that
> > output can be sent to the "sort" command and made unique:
> > 
> >   mpc -f '%album%' search artist satriani | sort -u
> > 
> > gives me just the album-names for all my Joe Satriani music, each
> > only appearing once.
> > 
> > For better or worse, it finds the artist in the ID3 data "artist"
> > information, so I happen to have one track that's on a Stu Hamm
> > album where Joe Satriani was playing and ended up in the ID3
> > data, so it does return that bootleg recording in addition to the
> > normal studio albums by Satriani.  But I kinda prefer it that
> > way.  
> 
> Thanks a lot. And if I want to add the whole album to the current
> playlist, what do I do then?
> 
> Lars
> 
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