mu-player

Top Features

• Play any music for free from vk.com and soundcloud.com using Music Player Daemon.
• Explore new music with last.fm top tracks, similar artists and top albums search.
• Bookmarks via Last.FM
• Smart searching:
  • bitrate detection for the highest bitrate music.
  • parallel queries, retries and timeouts to speed up searching. The only limitation now is the public API throttling.
• Low system requirements: mu-player will pump smooth even on your grandpa's notebook.
• Mu-player will save your laptop battery. CPU load of in-browser playback comparing to MPD is HUGE.
• It works on both MAC OS and Linux.

Why use mu-player instead of Google Music (or any other music service)?

• You will get any music for FREE.
• Mu-player always try to find music with highest bitrate quality.
• Largest music databases in the Internet.

You could use mu-player standalone or with any other full-featured MPD clients. See http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients for some greatness. For Ubuntu and Linux Mint mpDris2 is recommended. It will add native popups, multimedia keys support and playback control in Unity/Cinnamon.

[New] You could search by tags with # at the begining of your query. For the example type #Disco in search input.

This player is powered by amazing blessed library and forked from tasty badtaste player.

Install

• First install MPD. I recommend to use versions 0.19 and higher for addtagid functionality. Follow the http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Install for the instructions.
• Start MPD daemon if it is not started on system boot. You could test if it is running by typing telnet localhost 6600. You should see OK MPD response.
• You need nodejs and npm to install mu-player.
• Install mu-player:
  • MAC OS X: npm -g install mu-player.
  • Ubuntu (Debian) Linux: sudo npm -g install mu-player.
• Now you could run mu and setup your credentials for lastfm.com, soundcloud.com and vk.com. We have tons of free music there but you need to register accounts first.
• Run mu again and enjoy the music.

For the last.fm audio scrobbling you could use mpdas. Tested on OS X Yosemite, El Capitan; Ubuntu: 14.04, 15.10; Linux Mint 17.

Setup

• Run mu --setup to edit your credentials.

Config

• Config file is located at ~/.murc.
• You should tweak timeouts there for the best searching results with your Internet provider.

Log

• Log is located at /tmp/mu.log.

Help

• Press ? for in-app help.

Alternatives

• https://github.com/ewnd9/badtaste