What is hmc

hmc is a Music Player Daemon client with a simple interface inspired by billy.

Warning: This program is in an early stage of development.

Install

Currently you have to build it yourself with stack.

git clone https://github.com/OndrejSlamecka/hmc.git && cd hmc
stack build
stack exec hmc

Controls

• There are three views: Help (F1, F12), Playlist (F2, Esc), Browser (F3 adding mode, F4 opening mode).
• You can exit with q or Ctrl-d, if you want to keep the music playing then exit with Ctrl-q.
• In lists move up and down with arrows, press enter to play/(add/open), spacebar to (un)pause, Tab to play the next song. In playlist left and right arrows are used to seek in the song, in browser to enter/leave directory.
• You can use gg, G, Ctrl-f or PageDown, Ctrl-b or PageUp, Shift-up, Shift-down to move faster in lists.
• Remove the selected song from playlist with Del.
• Search with / or s and leave search with Esc.
• Control volume with + and - (if you have MPD configured to control volume).

TODO

• Fix: Repeated timer kills just before ticks can lead to drift from actual elapsed time (when starting progress timer, status should be fetched from MPD?)
• Improve: Make "next song" more responsive: execute "next song" MPD call asynchronously, before it returns queue all "next song" commands and once it returns just process them at once.
• Playing queue (like billy has).
• Recover when connection fails (can be fixed by the user by using MPD_HOST=127.0.0.1 hmc for now, maybe should be used by the Haskell MPD package or by libmpd?)