clerk/mppc full-featured dmenu/rofi driven mpd client

Rasi · 2014-08-09 22:36:17

I think this piece of script is now in such a mature state that I can publicly share it.

It's a full-blown mpd client using dmenu (preferably rofi)
It has more or less all features you'd expect in a mpd client and even some that no other client
offers.

Quick overview:

* Play random album/tracks
* Browse database either hierachical, by date, by albums or by tracks.
* Possiblity to "queue" tracks (without hacks)
* Basic playlist management
* Rating support (for tracks (tags) and albums (plain text file))
* Readcomments support
* Set MPD options.
* RSS Feed support
* Suspend/Resume of current queue
* Basic playback control

in-depth look: http://journal.53280.de/clerk-mpd-clien … yping.html (not up2date)

github page: https://github.com/carnager

AUR package:
clerk:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clerk-git/

Last edited by Rasi (2015-06-08 23:22:50)

mentat · 2014-11-27 13:55:50

Hi Rasi, sound very interresting.
Just try to use it, install from AUR but badly it doesn't run.

He launch the updater, output a unknow command dmenu_t at line 32, and didn't find any config file (config, albums.cache, tracks.cache).
rofi is already installed.

Did I miss something ?
Thx

Rasi · 2014-11-27 17:25:51

yes, you havent read pacman output...

to use clerk you need to copy /usr/share/doc/clerk/config.example to $HOME/.config/clerk/config
and edit it to your needs.

Install either dmenu2 or rofi-git from AUR.


Optional dependencies for clerk-git
    rofi-git: backend for clerk [installed]
    dmenu2: alternative backend for clerk [installed]
    mpd-sima: similar artists mode [installed]

Last edited by Rasi (2014-11-27 17:26:49)

mentat · 2014-11-27 19:28:17

Ouch' sorry for the lame Rasi I miss it.
Now I can use it, thanks !

Rasi · 2015-06-08 23:20:31

Update. clerk now totally relies on rofi. dmenu is not supported anymore.

rofi lately gained the possibility to use different hotkeys on a selection to trigger different actions. This was exactly what i needed for clerk
So it's now possible to either add, insert or replace the selected album/track from any view.

Also rofi allows to reload the last view after an action has been triggered. this makes it possible to add several songs to a playlist on one go.
even works on filtered lists.

mentat · 2015-06-17 07:25:08

Thanks Rasi,

do you plan a way to customize hotkeys ?
On a french laptop keyboard if I browse albums and try "Alt+2" it doesn't add the album and put "2" in the filter dailog.
Other rofi hotkeys like "Alt+b" works.

Rasi · 2015-06-17 15:19:51

esp. for you french users i already added this. check example config in /usr/share/doc/clerk

mentat · 2015-06-17 17:29:17

Great thanks for all.
I'll check if rofi-pass doc too for the same demand ^^

Rasi · 2015-06-17 17:50:00

oops... i actually forgot to implement the actual custom keybindings feature. its in now... same for rofi-pass

mentat · 2015-06-17 18:40:15

Great !
I'll now review all my pass files, rofi-pass is an elegant solution to manage user and url.
Big kudo for your projects and thank you again for your so fast reaction and implementation

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clerk/mppc full-featured dmenu/rofi driven mpd client

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