Often I don't listen to whole albums, but skip around my library. I found it annoying to always think about the next song to play and made an effort to automate this process by recording my listening patterns and generating suggestions.
The result of my efforts is a tool I call
songmem. You can use it to record what songs you are listening to like this:
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while true
do
song="$(mpc -f '%artist% - %title%' current --wait)"
songmem --register "$song"
done
After you recorded your listening patterns for a while you can list your recently heard songs with
songmem and get suggestions for a song with
songmem --suggestions 'LORN - ACID RAIN'. This is, of course, way to annoying to type and use, so you should get the song's name you want suggestions for from songmem itself like this:
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songmem --suggestions "$(songmem | dmenu -l 16)" | dmenu -l 16
.
You could then use mpc to add the selected suggestion to your queue. Take a look at
my scripts on GitHub for a more advanced example.
I hope you find the little tool useful.
Greetings,
codesoap
