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rybczak.net A mixture of programming, computer science and mathematics. Menu Articles ncmpcpp Screenshots Installation FAQ About Search for: NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc Main features: tag editor playlist editor easy to use search engine media library music visualizer ability to fetch artist info from last.fm new display mode alternative user interface ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory …and a lot more minor functions. Dependencies: boost library ncurses library readline library curl library (for fetching lyrics and last.fm data) fftw library (optional, required for frequency spectrum music visualization mode) tag library (optional, required for tag editing) Known issues: No full support for handling encodings other than UTF-8. Release Notes: ncmpcpp-0.9.2 (2021-01-24) Revert suppression of output of all external commands as that makes e.g album art addons no longer work. Gracefully handle failures when asking for a password. ncmpcpp-0.9.1 (2020-12-23) Add support for fetching lyrics from musixmatch.com. Fix intermittent failures of the Genius fetcher. Fix crash on startup with Visualizer as the initial screen. Fix crash on startup with Browser as the initial screen. Show the Visualizer immediately if it’s the initial screen. Draw a separator between albums with the same name, but a different artist. Suppress output of all external commands. Consider mouse support when pausing and unpausing curses interface. Reduce CPU usage of the frequency spectrum visualizer. Enable Link Time Optimization by default. Enable full sorting of items in the local browser if it’s not. Bind ‘Play’ to Backspace by default. Fix fetching information about artists from last.fm. ncmpcpp-0.9 (2020-12-20) Fix various Mopidy specific bugs. Add ‘run_external_console_command’ action for running terminal applications. Pass lyrics filename in single quotes to shell. Add support for fetching lyrics from zeneszoveg.hu. Add ‘Play’ action for starting playback in stopped state. Properly expand ‘~’ in mpd_host when preceded by a password. Add support for ‘message_delay_time’ equal to 0. Add support for album only view in the Media Library. Add ‘random_exclude_pattern’ option to a configuration file. Add ‘connected_message_on_startup’ option to a configuration file. Fix compilation with GCC 10. Remove Lyricwiki fetcher as the site closed down. Remove Lyricsmania fetcher as it no longer works. Fix Genius and Tekstowo fetchers. Add dedicated ‘Load’ action for loading playlists. Add ‘media_library_hide_album_dates’ option to a configuration file. Improve look of the frequency spectrum visualizer. Add ‘visualizer_spectrum_smooth_look’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_dft_size’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_gain’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_hz_min’ and ‘visualizer_spectrum_hz_max’ options to a configuration file for controlling the look of the new spectrum visualizer. Add ‘visualizer_autoscale’ option to a configuration file. Add ‘visualizer_fps’ option to a configuration file (60 by default). Allow for editing multiple titles in the Tag Editor. Support gstreamer’s udpsink as a data source for visualization (Mopidy). Deprecate ‘visualizer_fifo_path’ in favor of ‘visualizer_data_source’. Don’t run volume changing actions if there is no mixer. Do not loop after sending a database update command to Mopidy. Deprecate ‘visualizer_sync_interval’ configuration option. Deprecate ‘noop’ value of ‘browser_sort_mode’ in favor of ‘none’. Add ‘type’ value of ‘browser_sort_mode’ (set by default). Prefer ‘$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp’ as a folder with configuration. ncmpcpp-0.8.2 (2018-04-11) Help screen: fixed display of EoF keycode Fixed possible integer overflow when resizing screen Fixed fetching lyrics from lyricsmania.com, metrolyrics.com and sing365.com Search engine now properly interacts with filtering Fixed redraw of separator after interface switch while MPD was stopped Reset position of a window when fetching lyrics Fixed compilation with ICU = 61 ncmpcpp-0.8.1 (2017-10-11) Setting ‘colors_enabled’ to ‘no’ no longer results in a crash. Using ‘–quiet’ command line argument no longer results in a crash. If songs in media library have no track numbers, sort them by their display format. Fixed a situation in which songs added to playlist from media library or playlist editor screens would not be immediately marked as such. Do not start prompt with the current search constraint when applying a new one. ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21) Configuration variable ‘execute_on_player_state_change’ was added. Support for controlling whether ncmpcpp should display multiple tags as-is or make an effort to hide duplicate values (show_duplicate_tags configuration variable, enabled by default). Support for filtering of lists was brought back from the dead. Require C++14 compatible compiler during compilation. Lyrics from files containing DOS line endings now load properly on Linux. Added support for fetching lyrics from genius.com. Added support for fetching lyrics from tekstowo.pl. The list of lyrics fetchers can now be set via configuration file. Lyrics can now be fetched for songs with no tags. libcurl dependency is no longer optional. When an attempt to write tags fails, show detailed error message. Support for fetching lyrics for selected items in background was added. Application will now exit if stdin is closed. Configuration variable ‘visualizer_sample_multiplier’ was deprecated and will be removed in 0.9. Wide character version of ncurses is now required. Added ‘statusbar_time_color’ and ‘player_state_color’ configuration variables for further customization of statusbar. Setting foreground color only now preserves current background color. Format information can now be attached to selected color variables in the configuration file. Because of that variable ‘progressbar_boldness’ is now deprecated in favor of extended ‘progressbar_color’ and ‘progressbar_elapsed_color’ (for more information see example configuration file). Lyrics and last_fm can now be startup screens and are lockable. Action ‘update_environment’ now also synchronizes status with MPD. Fixed an issue that could cause some MPD events to be missed. Action ‘jump_to_playing_song’ is not runnable now if there is no playing song. Fixed fetching artist info in language other than English. Added test that checks if lyrics fetchers work (available via command line parameter –test-lyrics-fetchers). Fixed fetching lyrics from justsomelyrics.com. Added support for fetching lyrics from jah-lyrics.com and plyrics.com. Seek immediately after invoking appropriate action once. Added support for locating current song in playlist editor. Disable autocenter mode while searching and filtering. Added ‘–quiet’ comand line argument that supresses messages shown at startup. Multiple songs in Media library are now added to playlist in the same order they are displayed. Added configuration option ‘media_library_albums_split_by_date’ that determines whether albums in media library should be split by date. Added configuration option ‘ignore_diacritics’ that allows for ignoring diacritics while searching (boost compiled with ICU support is required). Added support for reading multiple bindings files (the ones in ~/.ncmpcpp/bindings and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp/bindings are read by default). ‘main_window_highlight_color’ and ‘active_column_color’ configuration options are now deprecated in favor of ‘current_item_prefix’/’current_item_suffix’ and ‘current_item_inactive_column_prefix’/’current_item_inactive_column_suffix’ (note that now highlight of inactive column is customizable instead of the active one in presence of multiple columns). ncmpcpp-0.7.7 (2016-10-31) Fixed compilation on 32bit platforms. ncmpcpp-0.7.6 (2016-10-30) Fixed assertion failure on trying to search backwards in an empty list. Updated installation instructions in INSTALL file. Make sure that stream of random numbers is not...