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mpd_sima.cfg - mpd-sima configuration.
This manual page documents briefly mpd-sima configuration options available in user configuration file (see FILES).
Here is an example of autoqueue using file tags only.
[MPD] # Uses defaults for MPD connection #host = localhost #port = 6600 #password = s3cr3t [sima] # Setup internal plugins # Tags plugin falls back to Random if nothing is found then Crop the queue internal = Tags, Random, Crop history_duration = 48 # 48h / 24 = 2 days queue_length = 2 # triggers autoqueue when 2 tracks remains to play [tags] # Look for files with tagged with genre "electronica" OR "IDM" OR "glitch" genre = electronica, IDM, glitch [crop] # keep 30 played tracks in playlist consume = 30
Here is an example of album queue configuration using online recommendations system.
[sima] history_duration = 96 # 4 days in hours, get a larger history for album mode queue_length = 5 [crop] consume = 20 [lastfm] queue_mode = album album_to_add = 1
The configuration file consists of sections, led by a [section] header and followed by name: value entries, with continuations in the style of RFC 822 (see section 3.1.1, “LONG HEADER FIELDS”); name=value is also accepted. Lines beginning with '#' or ';' are ignored and may be used to provide comments (Nota Bene: inline comment are possible using '#').
The default values are used in the options lists below.
This section is meant to configure MPD access, MPD host address / port and password if necessary.
[MPD]
Configure logging.
[log]
Configure process daemon.
[daemon]
Core mpd-sima configuration.
[sima]
Plugins list is a comma separated string list.
Optional plugin's configuration lays in its own section. For instance a "AwesomePlugin" declared here gets its configuration from the corresponding section "[awesomeplugin]".
The default list of plugins to load at startup: Lastfm,Random,Crop.
Crop is an utility plugin, it does not queue any tracks (cf. below).
Random will queue a track at random if other plugins did not return any tracks.
You can add, combine here as many plugins you want.
The priority may be used to order them.
The history_duration is also used to give priority to not recently played artists. Artist/tracks not in the scope of history have higther priority.
Consider using these metadata as it enhances a lot artist/album/tracks identification. Use Picard to tag your file: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/.
crop plugin's configuration:
[crop]
When no similar tracks are found, falling back to random queuing.
Random plugin's configuration:
[random]
LastFM plugin's configuration.
[lastfm]
queue_mode=track
max_art=20
Genre plugin's configuration.
This plugin permits offline autoqueuing based on files genre tag only.
It will try to queue tracks with similar genres (track's genre being read from tags).
[genre]
Tags plugin's configuration. There is no default configuration for this plugin, it does not work out of the box.
This plugin permits offline autoqueuing based on files tags only. Supported tags are 'comment', 'date', 'genre', 'label' and 'originaldate'.
In addition to supported tags above you can use an MPD filter. Please refer to MPD protocol documentation for more.
All tag entries in this section are ANDed as a single MPD filter to look for titles in the library. Moreover, for each tags, comma separated values are also ORed. For instance setting "genre=rock" and "date=1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989" will end up looking for track tagged with genre rock and date within 1982 through 1989. Using an MPD filter to replace date you can achieve the same with the following setting: "genre=rock" and "filter=(date =~ '198[2-9]+')" (provided your MPD server was compiled with libpcre).
[tags]
comment=
date=
genre=
label=
originaldate=
Different queue modes are available with some plugins (check for queue_mode presence in plugin config).
mpd-sima tries preferably to chose among unplayed artists or at least not recently played artist.
Nota Bene: Due to the track point of view of database build upon tracks tags an album lookup for a specific artist will return albums as soon as this artist appears in a single track of the album. For instance looking for album from "The Velvet Underground" will fetch "Last Days" and "Juno" OSTs because the band appears on the soundtrack of these two movies. A solution is for you to set AlbumArtists tag to something different than the actual artist of the track. For compilations, OSTs etc. a strong convention is to use "Various Artists" for this tag.
mpd-sima is currently looking for AlbumArtists tags and avoid album where this tag is set with "Various Artists". If a single track within an album is found with AlbumArtists:"Various Artists" the complete album is skipped and won't be queued.
Usually XDG_DATA_HOME is set to ${HOME}/.local/share and XDG_CONFIG_HOME to ${HOME}/.config (for regular users). You may override them using command line option --var-dir and --config (cf. mpd-sima(1))
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November 4, 2022 |