draai - 20201215-2 main

Draai is a wrapper around mpc, making playing music from the commandline more
enjoyable. mpc is a client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. Using draai,
one can play an audiofile (ogg, mp3, whatever your MPD offers), play all
files in a predefined playlist, view details on current, past and future
playing songs, skip to the next song, etc.
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The interface is purely command-line. No fancy gui's whatsoever. Draai
consists of one zsh shell script, calling mpc.
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Main differences with mpc: draai supports smooth fadeouts, draai can be used
as an alarmclock, draai supports rescheduling a track as the upcoming track,
draai offers fancy status windows. When draai starts playing the next song
it informs syslog about it, including all details about the song; a "tail -F"
on syslog yields a nice playlist history. Like mpc, draai comes with full
zsh tabcompletion support. The author uses draai for doing DJ sets in clubs.
If you, like the author, are a Unix sysadmin who likes to play music, you'll
like draai.
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Next to draai itself, the package installs some extra utilities for dealing
with audio files.