Goodsong

If you’re like me, (which you’re probably not…) you enjoy listening to your music with the great music playing daemon known as mpd. You also have your entire collection on shuffle.

Occasionally, I’ll fall into a valley of bad music and end up hitting next far too much to get to a good song. For this reason, I wrote goodsong.

What is it? 🔗

Essentially, you press one key command to say the currently playing song is good; then press a different key to say play me a good song.

Goodsong accomplishes exactly that. It creates a playlist file which you can auto-magically add the currently playing song to with the command goodsong. Subsequently, running goodsong -p will play a random track from that same list.

Here’s the --help:

usage: goodsong [ -p | -ls ]

options:
      -p,--play   play a random good song
      -ls,--list  print your list with music dir prepended

      none        note the currently playing song as good

Installation 🔗

Goodsong is available in its current form in my git repo.

Usage 🔗

Using goodsong is easy. You can always just run it from CLI, but I find it’s best when bound to keys. I’ll leave the method for that up to you; xbindkeys is a nice WM-agnostic way to bind some keys, or you can use your a WM-specific configuration to do so.

Personally, I keep Alt-g as goodsong and Alt-Shift-g as goodsong -p.