Comments on: MOC Audio Player — advanced tricks

By: Laptop Pugilist

Laptop Pugilist — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:43:57 +0000

Great article, mocp is just what I didn’t know I was missing. Your scripts for conky are great too, though it’s faster to just call mocp -i once:

#!/bin/sh

mocp -i > mocpinfo

STATE=”`cat /home/user/.moc/mocpinfo | grep ‘State:’ | sed -e ’s/^.*: //’`”;
TITLE=”`cat /home/user/.moc/mocpinfo | grep -m 1 ‘Title:’ | sed -e ’s/^.*: //’`”;
if [ "$STATE" = "STOP" ]; then echo „MOC”;
elif [ "$TITLE" = "" ]; then
FILE=”`cat /home/user/mocpinfo | grep ‘File:’ | sed -e ’s/^.*: //’`”;
echo ” $FILE “;
else echo ” $TITLE “;
fi

The speedup isn’t amazing unles (like I) you are also making a bar and paused/stopped indicator out of the same data. Those two scripts became three times as fast. As an added bonus it makes top look much neater!

By: LETRA

LETRA — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:08:15 +0000

Good article, moc is my first music player option since three years. Thanks from Spain. Greets.

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:08:23 +0000

Wonderful article. I use both Moc and Mpd. Even though Moc is my primary music player, My roomy loves Mpd + Sonata. I share my computer with her so it’s kind of give and take. Both are very cool music players!

For some time I’ve been trying to get a conky execibar to display a songs length correctly. I don’t know much about scripting, but I can sure botch up a script a perectly good script with some fiddling! How would you add that fuction to your script above?

By: finferflu

finferflu — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:48:54 +0000

@ Ravi S. Ghosh
While your argument is valid, I don’t think MPD is that heavy on resources, not even noticeable.

@ tash
I use MPD to play files straight from my HD. MPD can play both locally and remotely.

I personally like MPD a lot, but I’m not completely satisfied by the MPD clients. I only wish MOC had support for MPD.

By: tash

tash — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:26:27 +0000

i used to use mpd but switched to moc b. it more fits my needs, i’m not playing remotely and moc can play files straight from my hd which mpd cant.

By: Ravi S Ghosh

Ravi S Ghosh — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:08:04 +0000

Moc is better than mpd in my opinion since, mpd keeps on running all the time draining the processor even when it is not required.

By: pedro-kun

pedro-kun — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:29:51 +0000

Excelent article, indeed

I’m not gonna use moc, but i do use mpd all the time, which is pretty much the same thing, with some database capabilities.

I highly recomend this tutorial for everyone

By: CD Baric

CD Baric — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:40:08 +0000

Excellent article - will download and install today.

I am a great believer in the utility and power of the command line - I still use mplayer in command line mode for everything.

Thanks again,

CD ‘Bar’ Baric