![]() Without further ado, let’s chat with Craig.Ĭhris Hermansen: Looking at the GitHub page for Cantata, and the Debian publishing history for Cantata, it appears you’ve been working on Cantata since before 2014. I was interested in learning more about Cantata, so I was grateful when Craig agreed to do this interview (which has been lightly edited for length and clarity). I first ran into Cantata while I was looking for a way to control these servers, and wow, it is one impressive piece of work. I have two small headless computers at home configured as music servers-one connected to our stereo in our living room, one in my upstairs office. Craig Drummond is the developer and maintainer of Cantata, an open source music player that acts as a frontend (client) to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) music server. This is the third in a series of conversations with developers who build and maintain open source music players. Thanks for checking out the Install and configure mpd and ncmpcpp on MacOS guide. $ ncmpcppĪll my dotfiles for MacOS are available on my gitbub dotfiles repository. You can access your ncmpcpp interface by using the command below on your terminal. To update mpd, execute the command, $ mpd update Accessing ncmpcpp interface Mpd process can be killed by running the command. Start mpd service using the command: $ mpd Jump_to_now_playing_song_at_start = "yes"ĭiscard_colors_if_item_is_selected = "no" We’ll start with Mpd then move to ncmpcpp.Ĭreate Mpd media directories. Once the installation is done, we need to do some configurations before we can run the applications. $ brew install mpd ncmpcpp Configure Mpd and Ncmpcpp on macOS Now that you have Homebrew installed, run the following commands to install mpd and ncmpcpp. => Searching taps on GitHub.=> Searching blacklisted, migrated and deleted formulae. => Searching blacklisted, migrated and deleted formulae. Mpd ✔ mpdas mpdviz=> Searching taps on GitHub. => Searching local taps.libmpdclient ✔ libmpd mpdscribble rtmpdump You can search for the packages using: $ brew search mpd ncmpcpp If you don’t have a brew command on your Mac, refer to my previous article Install OpenOffice and LibreOffice on MacOS Sierra. It has the steps to install Homebrew. Installation of Mpd and Ncmpcpp on mac is done using brew. To be able to use ncmpcpp, you need to have a running mpd service since this is a client/server relationship. ![]() It also has some good features such as support for regular expressions for library searches, extended song format, items filtering, the ability to sort playlists, and a local filesystem browser. ![]() Ncmpcpp is an mpd client for Mpd with a UI interface similar to the one on ncmpc. ![]()
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