Command line: mpc

mpc is a command line client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). Pretty nifty for controlling it in the command line and a bit of automation.

Subcommands

The subcommands mainly deals with interacting with the server, letting you play and manage your music in the command line!

• listall lists all of the recognized files from the music directory.

• play play the playlist from the server.

• add [FILES...] add the files (that are in the music directory) to the playlist.

Examples

Welp, it's a music daemon client so it should be simple enough.

Randomized playlist

Even more useful if you schedule it.

mpc listall | shuf --head-count 10 | xargs --replace='{}' mpc add '{}'