dmenu-mpv

#!/bin/sh
# The only thing I ever do with my music player is listen to albums, preferably
# from start to finish. I was frustrated with most music player interfaces as
# they were sluggish and hard to subject to my will. This script simply
# presents the user with a shuffled list of albums to play, then gets out of
# the way.
#
# Note that you can use the excellent <github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris> to add MPRIS
# support to `mpv`, so that it can be controlled with `playerctl` instead of
# mpv's own <https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#json-ipc>.
#
# Instead of dmenu, you can also use a symlink to rofi/wofi/bemenu.
#
# Dependencies: (Debian) mpv netcat-netbsd xdg-dirs fd-find shuf sort

MUSIC="/home/gor/ms/"
SOCK="/tmp/mpvsocket"
PLAYLIST="/tmp/mpvplaylist"

# Test if an instance of mpv is already listening; if not, start one
if ! test -S "$SOCK" || ! nc -Uz "$SOCK" 2>/dev/null; then
    mpv --idle --no-terminal --no-audio-display --input-ipc-server="$SOCK" &
fi

# Query for album to play, and make corresponding playlist
fd . --base-directory "$MUSIC" --type d \
| shuf \
| dmenu -c -l 10 -p Music -i $DMENU_OPTS \
| xargs -I{} fd '.(mp3|webm|m4a|flac|ogg|wav)$' "$MUSIC/{}" \
| sort > "$PLAYLIST"

# Play it
if [ -s "$PLAYLIST" ]; then
    echo '
    {"command":["loadlist","'$PLAYLIST'","replace"]}
    {"command":["set","pause","no"]}' | nc -UN "$SOCK"
fi