+TITLE: Playerctl.el

• What

  • [[https://github.com/acrisci/playerctl][Playerctl]], let you control your music player (Spotify, vlc, audacious, bmp, xmms2, and others) from shell.
  • playerctl.el is just a simple binding to play your music from emacs

• Use In your emacs.d/init.el :

** Classic install

+begin_example

+begin_src el

(require 'playerctl) (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c C-SPC") 'playerctl-play-pause-song) (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c C-n") 'playerctl-next-song)

+end_src el

+end_example

** Use-package install

+begin_example

+begin_src el

(use-package playerctl :bind( ("C-c C-SPC" . playerctl-play-pause-song) ("C-c C-n" . playerctl-next-song) ("C-c C-p" . playerctl-previous-song) ("C-c C-f" . playerctl-seek-foward) ("C-c C-b" . playerctl-seek-backward) ) )

+end_src el

+end_example

** Commands

• ~[M-x] playerctl-play-pause-song~ : Creat joy or stop noise
• ~[M-x] playerctl-next-song~ : change your univers
• ~[M-x] playerctl-previous-song~ : Your best wish was yesterday
• ~[M-x] playerctl-stop-song~ : Push back your brain in real world
• ~[M-x] playerctl-status~ : Give you the status of the player
• ~[M-x] playerctl-volume-up~ : Turn volume up
• ~[M-x] playerctl-volume-down~ : Turns volume down
• ~[M-x] playerctl-seek-forward~ : Seeks forward
• ~[M-x] playerctl-seek-backward~ : Seeks backward
• ~[M-x] playerctl-metadata~ : Show metadata (player name, status, artist, album, and title)
  • Need to do :
• Write a true documentation
• Check if playerctl is installed
• Put status / artist / song in statusbar