Controlling Your Music Queue More Flexibly With MPD

I’ve been working with two programs that make interacting with your music using mpd even easier, regardless of source. First, I’ve updated some things with mpdq. It runs in the background every few minutes, and if there aren’t enough songs in the queue, it adds some. It chooses the songs to add based on some presets you create that are based around what genres are selected. I fixed some bugs and cleaned up references, as well as gave it a way to list what the presets it knows about are. But most important is the addition of an interactive mode where you can not only quickly (and easily) change the preset it uses, but also preview what those rules are. You can see it fill up the queue here after I choose the “Techno” preset. I have the loud output on, so it shows you what it’s choosing (and not choosing) and why as it fills the playlist. (The very pretty interface on the left is rmpc, the Rusty Music Player Client.) You can get mpdq at GitLab or GitHub I also made mpdcontrol (or mpdc…