Music-streamer

simple script to stream my favourite artists from youtube --no-audio --no-browser --no-player

Python script to fetch music videos from my favourite aritists and play them in background. Its a wrapper around youtube-dl and googlesearch python library.

• Reads configurations from conf.json and does a boolean search to generate links.
• Youtube-dl converts them to a link which can be streamed.
• mpc queue the links to mpd playlist

Requirements

Any linux machine .

Dependencies

• mpd (music player daemon) & mpc sudo apt install mpd mpc -y
• youtube-dl

  sudo apt install curl -y
  sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
  sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
  

• python
  • googlesearch pip install google
• ncmpcpp(optional) : n curses musicplayer client ++

Usage

• clone the repository
• edit conf.json to add your favourite artists
• change permissions of scripts chmod 755 que_music.sh get_music.py
• run the bash script ./queu_music Note that the scripts just queue the links - play with your favourite client - say ncmpcpp or just open another terminal after a few seconds and type mpc toggle

caveats

- adding mashups in conf file may result in songs of various artists
- running this mutliple times may not work depending upon the number of artists and pause you are giving in between the searches . 
you can increase the pause parameter in the get_music.py to avoid this. 

fifo version

Using fifo instead of files to get faster first songs