streaming

Not always, but sometimes when I need[1] to concentrate™, I put some music/noise on. Either through headphones or the speaker. FIP often fills silence satisfactorily. Brown noise also works. Sometimes I turn to youtube for long background tracks like the ten-hour long White Noise Sounds of Frozen Arctic Ocean with Polar Icebreaker Idling. Or, clichéd as it may be, I do also quite like the lofi girl streams, specifically the "lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study to". the problem It's not really a problem, but it bugs me to have to have a browser window with youtube open. the solution Some fragile python code, a bash script, a function and an alias in my .bashrc file, which altogether mean I can type streamurl in my terminal, and the music/noise just plays. VLC's GUI doesn't even open because we used cvlc instead of just vanilla vlc. There are a few more lines of python that mean if I don't pass pass a url, it'll deafult to "lofi hip hop beats to relax/study to". To stop it I tiptap:…