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Good to know, and thanks! I started using mpv recently, about year ago, and also found that mpv is simple, works, and the documentation has you covered. Note that the aim/need is not on providing a complete player/interface replacement, but on co-existing, and having an easy way to control the running mpv from the terminal, so if I'm working from the terminal I don't need to switch to the player window/terminal. One example of the above, is when you're listening music and want to filter the playlist to a specific artist. That's easy, just issue: "mpvc save | awk '/artist/' | mpvc load", then, the playlist is good and want to save it for later use: "mpvc autosave good.m3u", or the good part of the track starts at minute 34, so I can "mpvc time 34m".
For more complex uses, as applying audio/video filters to the running player, things like "mpvc cmd af toggle lavfi=[loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-3:LRA=4]" are possible.
The mpvc-tui covers a similar purpose: that last song/artist/section was good, what's the name?, start mpvc-tui and have a quick look at the playlist, or status. And as you say, I also found out that I didn't require much fancy from a media player, just a player that worked, and a bit of shell scripting to cater my needs. |