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ALobhos

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Registered: 2020-09-04

Posts: 3

ncmpcpp not showing song names in browser tab

Hello.

Last night i've installed mpd with ncmpcpp and spend time configuring it. When it finally worked correctly (for a while) everything was ok with all. But now when I display the browser (by typing 2) it only shows my directories and the songs doesn't show. They're all just invisible because I can move down with the arrow keys and start playing them or add some to a playlist, there is no problem with that.

But it's such a pain to be reproducing the songs blindly, or adding them to a playlist (because for some reason in other tabs they show correctly) and then removing the unwanted ones.

Does anyone know about something similar?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,712

Re: ncmpcpp not showing song names in browser tab

Afaics ncmpcpp uncoditionally uses "white" for untagged filenames - if the files have no ID3 tags (shame on you…) and you use the same color for white as for the terminal background they'll perfectly blend.
Solution:
* tag your files
* use better terminal colors: https://terminal.sexy/ - it's a good idea to keep at least a shade between all all colors.
* File a bug againt ncmpcpp, tell them that your terminal is ugly and you're too lazy to tag your file, so filename colors should be configurable (and brace yourself in case they are and I just could not find the config key ;-)

(On a serious note, that's probably a bug in ncmpcpp - kinda expecting a white on black terminal)

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